Dinosaurs
Researchers Find Pint-Sized Meat-Eating Dinosaur
Source: Yahoo! News, "Researchers Find Pint-Sized Meat-Eating Dinosaur," March 16, 2009; http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_sc/sci_dino_ankle_biters more
Human Hair Linked to Dinosaur Claws
Source: MSNBC.com, "Human Hair Linked to Dinosaur Claws," by Jennifer Viegas, November 11, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27663717/ more
Scientists Question Dinosaur Soft Tissue Find
Source: Yahoo! News, "Scientists Question Dinosaur Soft Tissue Find," July 29, 2008 more
Rare Mummified Dinosaur Uncovered
Source: MSNBC, The Associated Press, "Rare Mummified Dinosaur Uncovered," by Blake Nicholson, March 18, 2008 more
A Family Breakup Kills the Dinosaurs
In 1980 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his geologist son Walter Alvarez proposed a provocative theory. They suggested that the Earth had been struck by an asteroid in its past to … more
Is There a Controversy about Evolution?
"Teaching the controversy" is controversial. Sides have been drawn.
On one side, most intelligent design (ID) proponents want students to become familiar with the evidence cited in support of … more
Feathered Dinosaur or Flightless Bird?
A recent collaborative study by scientists from Oregon State, Purdue (at Fort Wayne), Johns-Hopkins, and the College of Charleston provides evidence that the once highly touted feathered dinosaur, … more
New Challenge to the Bird-Dinosaur Link
In the Liaoning Province of The People’s Republic of China, researchers are combing an extremely rich fossil site, the Yixian Formation. It contains remarkably well-preserved remains of plants, … more