Downy Feather

South Polar Dinosaur Feathers

South polar dinosaur feathers found, claim scientists, as reported by ScienceDaily 12 November 2019 and National Geographic 18 November 2019, and Gondwana Research, published online 11 November 2019; doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.10.004. An international group of scientists has studied 10 tiny fossil feathers found in the Koonwarra fossil formation in Victoria Australia. The specimens examined by the […]

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Dinosaur Teeth

Dinosaur Tooth Story

Dinosaur tooth story reported in The Star Calgary 11 October 2019, Science Daily 17 October 2019, and The Anatomical Record 9 September 2019 doi: 10.1002/ar.24241. Palaeontologists have found a nearly complete skeleton of a small dinosaur named Saurornitholestes langstoni in the Dinosaur Provincial Park Formation in Alberta Canada. The dinosaur is described as “feathered carnivorous […]

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Tyrannosaur

No Feathers on T rex

No feathers on T. Rex, according to reports in Science (AAAS) News and National Geographic 6 June 2017, BBC News 7 June 2017, and Royal Society Biology Letters doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0092, published online 7 June 2017. Over the last two decades there have been many claims of evolved “protofeathers” being found on dinosaur fossils, including a […]

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Baby Dragon

Baby dragon found, according to reports in Science (AAAS) News 9 May 2017and BBC News 10 May 2017, and Nature Communications doi:10.1038/ncomms14952 Published online: 09 May 2017. A team of scientists in China have studied a dinosaur hatchling whose fossil was found along with dinosaur eggs called Macroelongatoolithus (large long egg-shaped stones), dated as 90 […]

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