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How to find fossils: Lessons from a self-taught dinosaur tracker...Lessons you didn't know you needed but definitely want!
You don't find fossils by digging or drilling into the ground. (In many places, this would be illegal.) So the best way to find a footprint is to look in areas where rocks are exposed. In Maryland, where much of the land is obscured by foliage or paved over with concrete, that means searching in streams.
Rich people are buying up dinosaurs because museums are too poor to get them
Museums and scientists increasingly lack the funds to buy dinosaur fossils, which can be auctioned off for enormous sums, an article in the scientific journal Nature yesterday (June 1) explains. This particular fossil, excavated in Wyoming between 2013 and 2015, is expected to go for €1.2 million–1.8 million (US$1.4 million–2.1 million).
Who knew Dinosaurs were such flakes: dinosaurs had dandruff.
Yes, we identified small flakes of the outer layer of the skin from three feathered dinosaurs and a fossil bird from around 125 million years ago. We could see that the fossil cells were jam-packed with fibres of keratin, a tough protein we find in skin, nails and claws.
Dinosaurs Could Barely Use Their Tongues...So I guess french kissing was out of the question.
"Tongues are often overlooked. But, they offer key insights into the lifestyles of extinct animals," said lead author Zhiheng Li in a press statement.
CT scanned dinosaur skull could spur future scientific research.
The hospital's images were made to create the exhibition's interactive display, but they could spur future scientific research.
“We can see the internal structure, all of the nasal openings, the vein density, how everything is formed in there,” Jabo explained.
A paleontologist explains why bringing back dinosaurs is a really bad idea
First, bringing back T. rex and Triceratops would, I believe, simply be cruel. They lived during the end-Cretaceous period, some 70-66 million years ago, when the world was a much different place. It was considerably warmer, there were no ice caps, sea levels were high and the oceans lapped far onto the land, and the continents were in other positions. Dinosaurs would have breathed different air (there was much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere then), eaten different food (grasses and flowers had just started to evolve, and there were none of the grasslands or vast flowering forests of today), and interacted with different animals (mammals were little more than ratty creatures scurrying in the shadows).
Could Humans and Dinosaurs Coexist? Here's the Science.
However, she says, “there is increasing evidence that proteins and other soft tissues can preserve over geological timescales, so I think it would be unwise to say that we will definitely never be able to get DNA from dinosaur fossils.”