BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — What’s keeping humans from living to be 150 or even 200 years-old? Instead of pointing the finger at fast food and smoking, a fascinating new theory suggests that you may have the dinosaurs to blame for humanity’s current rate of aging. Did a velociraptor drink up the entire fountain of youth and …
The extinction of dinosaurs on Earth is said to be the most massive blow to life on the planet after it is said that it was hit by an asteroid. However, there have been many hints which suggest that asteroids may not be the reason behind the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, but only the …
The discovery of Qianlong shouhu, a new dinosaur species, has led to the revelation that the first dinosaur eggs were likely leathery. This contributes significantly to our understanding of dinosaur reproductive evolution and the ancestral state of reptilian eggshells. (Reconstruction of egg nests containing fossilized embryos.) Credit: NICE Vistudio A recent study on the newly …
The dinosaurs may have been extinct for more than 65 million years but scientists have suggested that they could still exist as aliens on other planets. Researched published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that dinosaurs might not only be on other planets but that we could also find them. The …
An illustration of a sleeping alvarezsaurid dinosaur, Jaculinykus, like modern birds. Image Credit: Seiji Yamamoto Researchers discovered a new alvarezsaur type, Jaculinykus yaruui gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. They found a nearly complete and articulated skeleton in a position that suggests it slept like modern birds. The phylogenetic analysis reveals …