Archive for August 5th, 2012

Albertonykus borealis: America’s Smallest Dinosaur

An unusual breed of dinosaur that was the size of a chicken, ran on two legs and scoured the ancient forest floor for termites is the smallest dinosaur species found in North America, according to a University of Calgary researcher who analyzed bones found during the excavation of an ancient bone bed near Red Deer, […]

Scientific understanding of T. rex revised by a decade of new research and discovery

We’ve all heard this story: the Late Cretaceous of Asia and North America-about 65 million years ago-was dominated by several large-headed, bipedal predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Tarbosaurus that had tiny arms. But a decade of new fossil discoveries that have more than doubled the number of known tyrannosaur species has changed this tale. Older and smaller tyrannosaurs […]