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An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...
Cranial kinesis allows modern birds to eat a wider variety of foods and use their beaks as multifunctional tools.
Dinosaurs’ hyper-efficient breathing system also evolved in two other lineages. ... “Evolution works as a thinker,” Ghilardi reflected, something she often tells her students.
Despite how we usually depict them, the hilarious truth is that many dinosaurs who once roamed our Earth, did so with a ...
Dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their rise was a slow and complicated event, and driven by two mass extinctions, according to new research.
Evolution of birds is result of a drastic change in how dinosaurs developed Date: May 30, 2012 Source: The University of Texas at Austin Summary: Researchers have found evidence that the evolution ...
The word "dinosaur" tends to evoke giant animals with massive bodies, long necks and tails, and tiny heads. These "quintessential dinosaurs" actually represent one prominent subgroup of the ...
Perhaps in that alternate world a dinosaur is writing up a story about convergent evolution and the experiments being done to better grasp the amazing, gaze-following abilities of those curious ...
The Surprising Evolution of Dinosaur Drawings. Since the 1800s, paleoartists have tried to imagine what prehistoric creatures looked like—with wildly different results. By Asher Elbein.