tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41778459408765054922012-02-16T03:46:50.634-08:00The latest news from the dinosaur world written for kids. Catch up with the latest and greatest discoveries from around the world, interesting dinosaur people and links to the very best dinosaur games on the planet - It’s all here.Tom T-Rexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08516351499654786584noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177845940876505492.post-48176806757706651382010-07-30T19:25:00.000-07:002010-07-30T19:25:00.742-07:00

A tubby dinosaur sporting two horns each the length of a baseball bat roamed Mexico 72 million years ago. That’s what paleontologists have discovered since digging up the remains of the plant-eating dinosaur, Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna, in Coahuila, Mexico. This newly unearthed dinosaur had the longest horns of any ceratopsids – longer even than the famous Triceratops. It would have been

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Paleontologists have discovered a giant sea creature from the dinosaur era with 289 stones in its gut. How did they get there? The plesiosaur swallowed them. Ouch, that must hurt! Not for a Dolichorhynchops plesiosaur apparently. It seems as though the stones served some sort of digestive purpose, helping to grind up bits of shell or bony material within the gut, according to scientists.

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It’s been touted as one of the great battles of history. The epic fights that must have occurred between the giant meat-eaters, Spinosaurus and T-Rex. Who would have won is a question scientists have been asking for decades. But what if they didn’t actually fight? A recent French study suggests these two deadly dinosaurs may have lived quite separate lives that kept them apart from each other.

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Imagine dying after falling into a footprint! Only in the prehistoric world could this happen. An unusual fossil find shows a group of tiny feathered dinosaurs died after falling into the deep muddy footprints of a much-larger Sauropod dinosaur. Skeletons of 18 small two-legged dinosaurs were discovered stacked on top of each other in the 160-million-year-old sediments of an ancient marsh in

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Just like today’s owl or kiwi, Archaeopteryx may have been a bird that came alive at night. Scientists have just found they can predict whether birds feed during the day, night or twilight depending on the shape of their eye sockets. This gives them new insight into the lifestyles of prehistoric birds. An early study of an Archaeopteryx fossil shows it had deep eye sockets like an owl or kiwi

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Scientists have found what they are calling a “dinosaur dance floor” on the Arizona-Utah border in the US. They have discovered such an amazing collection of dinosaur footprints – more than 1,000 – that geologists reckon it looks like a giant dino dance floor. The 190-million-year-old footprints are around what used to be a watering-hole within the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument and are made

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Can’t you just imagine this in your back garden? Wouldn’t mum love it? This house-sized reptile weighing two-and-a-half-tonne is looking for a new home. Obviously your average kid’s bedroom is not quite suitable. It’s a case of out with the old and in with the new at Europe’s biggest dinosaur park where this old long-necked faithful has stood tall since it opened. Plans to bring in a new model

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You never know what you might find in your garden! Year 10 student Raymond Hodgson and groundsman Ben Smith have unearthed a giant dinosaur-like sea creature in a school vegie garden in Australia. The pair were digging corner posts for a vegetable garden at the Richmond State School, in western Queensland, when they made the find. At first they thought the hard lumps in the dirt were rocks but

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The fossilised skull of a giant sea monster so big it could have taken a human in one gulp has been found. This beast, called a pliosaur, was so colossal it would have eaten a T-Rex for breakfast! It terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago while dinosaurs ruled the land. Pliosaurs had short necks and huge heads like crocodiles with powerful jaws and a set of enormous razor-sharp teeth.

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Scientists have found a four-winged dinosaur with multi-coloured feathers including a red Mohawk! The dinosaur, Anchiornis huxleyi, lived in the late Jurassic Period in China. After studying its 150 million year old fossil paleontologists believe its body was grey, it had speckles on its face, white feathers with black tips on its wings and legs and, amazingly, a reddish-brown Mohawk-like crest

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Scientists have confirmed it definitely was an asteroid from space colliding with earth that killed off the dinosaurs, not a massive series of volcanic eruptions. A group of 41 leading experts have all agreed it was an asteroid or comet from space that caused the mass extinction 65 million years ago wiping out half of all species on the planet including dinosaurs. The asteroid or comet smashed

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A tiny ‘roadrunner’ looking dinosaur has been found in China. Scientists believe it would have been one of the fastest dinosaurs ever discovered and that’s why they gave it the ‘roadrunner’ nickname, after that super-speedy bird. It is also believed to be one of the smallest dinosaurs ever unearthed measuring just half a metre long. It’s official name is Xixianykus zhangi – quite a mouthful!

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