…n and a tyrannosaurus.” Hans Larsson, a palaeontologist at McGill University in Canada, conducted an experiment recently into the evolution from dinosaurs’ long tails into birds’ short tails more than 150 million years ago. Looking at a two-day-old chicken embryo, he made an unexpected discovery. Expecting to see between four and eight vertebrae present in the developing spine, his microscope inst…
Multituberculates, a group of rodent-like mammals that existed for approximately 120 million years, survived after dinosaur extinction because they were adapted to eating flowering plants, say scientists. The “mass extinction event” which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is thought to have been caused by an asteroid or volcanic activity. Once the dinosaurs were no more, the rodent-lik…
Scientists have found that dinosaurs may be partly to blame for a change in climate because they created so much flatulence. Professor Graeme Ruxton of St Andrews University, Scotland, said the giant animals spent 150 years emitting the potent global warming gas, methane. Large plant-eating sauropods would have been the main culprits because of the huge amounts of greenery they consumed. The team…
…tic turkeys but were thought to be voracious predators. A bone of a large flying reptile found in the gut of a Velociraptor is believed to be the dinosaur's last meal A famous fossil unearthed in 1971 known as the “fighting dinosaurs” shows a Velociraptor and larger Protoceratops apparently locked in combat. But evidence of feeding by theropod dinosaurs, such as Velociraptor or Ty…
…ays ago Charlie Sheen posted a picture of the costume on his Twitter page yesterday, writing: “Trick or Treat Cadre! Got my Halloween costume.” “All set! Yeah, this really confused the kids.” Google’s 12 most searched Halloween 2011 costumes: 1. Angry Birds 2. Black Swan 3. Playboy Bunny 4. Nicki Minaj 5. Smurfette 6. Wilfred 7. Monster High 8. Tron 9. Captain America 10. Pan Am 11. Charlie Sheen…
…4 – which will be made in 3D – is due for release in June 2014. Steven Spielberg announced in 2011 that Jurassic Park 4 was in development, much to the delight of fans who will have waited 13 years when the fourth film hits the big screen. Universal has given no other details regarding its cast or plot, however it will be written by Rise of the Planet of the Apes screenwriters Rick Jaf…
Mar 15 2013 | Posted in
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The Rolling Stones are to play as one of the three headline acts for the Glastonbury Festival 2013, taking place on the final weekend of June (28-30). It will be the first time the Rolling Stones have played at the festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, which will draw about 135,000 people. The other headline acts at the festival are Mumford and Sons and the Arctic Monkeys. The Rolling Stones will be…
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…ypical man deploying these bon mots while seeking female companionship might worry about having his facial features, as well as his cocktail order, shaken, not stirred. But not James Bond. For all his 1950s attitudes, wince-inducing “jokes” and unapologetic sexism, agent 007 exists in a world where the usual laws of romantic gravity do not apply. Wherever he goes, the world’s mos…
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…rk and the Rega Institute in Belgium. It is reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. One of the viruses was found to have invaded the genome of a common ancestor around 100 million years ago with its remnants discovered in almost every mammal in the study. Another infected an early primate with the result that it was found in apes, humans and other primates as well….
Writer Maurice Sendak, the author of children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, died early on Tuesday at 83. Longtime friend and caretaker Lynn Caponera said she was with him when Maurice Sendak died at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut. She said he had a stroke on Friday. Where the Wild Things Are earned Maurice Sendak a prestigious Caldecott Medal for the best children’s book of 19…
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One of the strongest lines of evidence that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, like modern reptiles, has been knocked down. Prior studies of dinosaur bones uncovered what are known as “lines of arrested growth”. The creatures were presumed to be cold-blooded because modern cold-blooded animals show these same lines. But scientists reporting in Nature have studied the bones of 41 modern mamm…
