Tag Archives: Dinosaur

The Whale Too Big for Its Own Good

What magnificent creatures these blue whales are. One hundred feet long and 160 tons in weight! This is probably about the same size or even bigger than the largest ever land animal, which I believe was the brontosaurus. TGO Refer to … Continue reading

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Scientists re-create what may be life’s first spark

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press Associated Press SETH BORENSTEINDecember 8, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth. … Continue reading

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Warm blooded or cold? Dinosaurs were somewhere in between

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham June 12, 2014 4:11 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The hot question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, fish and amphibians … Continue reading

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Ancient flying reptile from China fills evolutionary gap

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham April 24, 2014  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was the start of something big – really big. Scientists on Thursday said they have found a fossil from 163 million … Continue reading

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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth’s worst mass extinction

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham March 31, 2014 4:00 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sometimes bad things come in small packages. A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth’s atmosphere triggered a … Continue reading

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Cockroaches Munched on Dinosaur Poop

Interesting stuff… TGORefer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Tanya Lewis, Staff Writer  Scientists now have an answer to a question you never knew you had: What happened to all the dinosaur dung? Cockroaches vacuumed it up, a new study … Continue reading

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Scientists say new dinosaur found in Utah is relative of T. rex

I can’t imagine what it must have been like with these huge reptiles roaming the earth. It would be so cool if Jurassic Park (the movie) could become reality. TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Laila Kearney (Reuters) … Continue reading

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Bitten by hungry T. rex, this dinosaur got away

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press MALCOLM RITTER NEW YORK (AP) — The fearsome bite of a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex left behind new evidence that the famous beast hunted for food and wasn’t just a scavenger. … Continue reading

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Hundreds of Dinosaur Egg Fossils Found

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Live Science Staff | LiveScience.com – Sat, Mar 16, 2013 Researchers in northeastern Spain say they’ve uncovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including four kinds that had never been found … Continue reading

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