Researchers find evidence of dinosaur cannibalism

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, scientists have found evidence that 'Sue', the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex whose fossilized remains are a star attraction of the Field Museum in Chicago, was felled in more mundane fashion by a lowly parasite that still afflicts modern birds. The study was conducted by an international team of researchers led by Ewan D.S.

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Dinosaur hunters have unearthed the jaw of a Tyrannosaurs Rex only to find a tooth from Gorgosaurus, a smaller cousin of T. Rex, dug into the bone, which suggests that the fearsome beasts had a penchant for biting each other's faces.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - A strange object spotted flying in Argentinean skies is speculated to be either a flying saucer or a dinosaur. A fisherman near San Rafael photographed the mysterious object flying over an artificial lake called El-Nihuil last Saturday.

September 4th, 2009 SYDNEY - Remains of a dinosaur, nicknamed the 'Giraffe of the Mesozoic' due to its long neck and forelimbs, have been discovered in China for the first time. According to a report by ABC News, Qiaowanlong kangxii, is the first Early Cretaceous brachiosaur ever found in China.

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - Scientists have found the largest dinosaur footprints ever to be discovered in Europe, which are discovered half way up a Swiss mountain. According to a report in the Telegraph, a team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in Basel found the prints at 3,300 metres on a mountain in Ela Nature Reserve, Switzerland's largest park.

July 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of paleontologists has found evidence of dinosaur burrows in Victoria, Australia, which would help shed light on long-term geologic change, and how organisms may have adapted as the Earth has undergone periods of global cooling and warming. The find, by paleontologist Anthony Martin and his team from Emory University, US, suggests that burrowing behaviors were shared by dinosaurs of different species, in different hemispheres, and spanned millions of years during the Cretaceous Period, when some dinosaurs lived in polar environments.

July 3rd, 2009 SYDNEY - In a new research, paleontologists have unveiled three new Australian dinosaur skeletons in outback Queensland, Australia. According to a report by ABC News, the two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed our land during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago.

June 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of paleontologists has claimed to have discovered the largest carnivorous dinosaur tooth in Spain till date. The features and size of the 9.83cm tooth provide key information needed to identify its former owner.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, scientists have found the fossilized hand of a long-necked, ostrich-like dinosaur in China, which may help solve the mystery of how bird wings evolved from dinosaur limbs. According to a report in National geographic News, the ancient digits belonged to a 159-million-year-old theropod dinosaur dubbed Limusaurus inextricabilis.

June 5th, 2009 Scientists find more dinosaur bones at Utah quarrySALT LAKE CITY — Scientists at one of Utah's major new dinosaur quarries have found 60 to 70 new bones this spring, including what appears to be a 20-foot-long neck bone discovered this week. The latest finds are fresh evidence that the site near Hanksville could be a large and important source of bones in the coming years.

May 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta in Canada. The discovery includes nesting site and the remains of baby, plant-eating dinosaurs and the teeth of a predator.

April 29th, 2009 Dino-mite: Utah quarry gets explosive treatmentSALT LAKE CITY — Sometimes the delicate tools of dinosaur diggers just don't cut it. Thwarted since 2007 by layers of rock-hard sandstone, researchers at one of Dinosaur National Monument's most important quarries turned to something more potent than brushes and hammers: explosives.

April 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - New scientific evidence suggests that dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin, USA, date from after the mass extinction event, and that dinos may have survived in a remote area of what is now New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years, in a scenario resembling that of the fictional 'Lost World'. This controversial new research, is based on detailed chemical investigations of the dinosaur bones, and evidence for the age of the rocks in which they are found.

April 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered a dinosaur tooth along what's now the Kakanaut River of northeastern Russia, a find that shows dinos once lived above the Arctic Circle. Scientists say the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago when a big meteor crash set off volcanoes galore, with dust and smoke filling up the air.

March 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Archaeologists have recently uncovered evidence which indicates that Druids possibly committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice, perhaps on a massive scale, which add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery. After a first century B.C.