Archive for July 8th, 2012

Most dinosaurs were like giant squirrels, new fossil evidence suggests

Could dinosaurs have been overgrown squirrels instead of overgrown lizards? The possibility arose after scientists found the fossil of a squirrel-tail dinosaur that suggests dinosaurs were “feathered,” National Geographic News reported. National Geographic said the “exquisitely preserved” 150-million-year-old fossil was unearthed from a Bavarian limestone quarry, and was dubbed Sciurumimus albersdoerferi —a nod to Scirius, the […]