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2 Million-Year-Old Mastodon Skull and Tusks Unearthed in Chile
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsNow that's some mammoth discovery. The skull and tusks of a 2 million-year-old elephant relative -- a mastodon -- have been unearthed in Chile. Construction workers building a hydroelectric power plant near the Chilean capital of Santiago dug up 4-foot-long, 6-inch-wide tusks as well as the first complete mastodon skull found in the South American country, the Daily Mail reports. "When we were in the excavation process, we were aware that the bone continued," said Rafael Labarca of Chile's PDI Institute. "Practically the whole skull complete and in perfect condition, with its four molars and ...
32 Percent of Russians Think the Sun Revolves Around Earth
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsDoes the sun revolve around Earth? Is radioactivity a human invention? Did humans ever live side by side with dinosaurs? A surprising number of people in Russia answered those and other questions with a resounding "yes." A survey published this week by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center targeted scientific superstitions among Russian citizens and was released as Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, announced that Russia should develop its own space exploration agenda. Yet, with their country about to take bolder moves for a future in space, 32 percent of Russians dismiss the idea ...
The Big One -- Thomas the T. Rex -- Hits Los Angeles
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsHe has arrived. Direct from southwestern Montana, meet Thomas the T-rex. Excavated between 2003-2005 by Dr. Luis Chiappe and his Dinosaur Institute team from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the 30-foot Thomas -- as well as a 20-foot juvenile T-rex and a 10-foot baby T-rex -- were the first dinosaurs to be revealed this week at the much-anticipated new Dinosaur Hall in L.A. that opens this summer. Phil Fraley, whose New Jersey-based company Phil Fraley Productions, Inc. was responsible for mounting the T-Rex series, told AOL News it's no mystery why so many are fascinated ...
Early T. Rex Ancestor Found in South America
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - Back at the dawn of the dinosaur era, a quick-moving predator set the stage for the famous and fearsome giants that followed in its footsteps, according to new research. "It was a little dinosaur, but it carried a big evolutionary stick," said Paul C. Sereno of the University of Chicago, a leader of the team that discovered Eodromaeus. The 4-foot-long hunter lived 230 million years ago in what is now South America and appears to be the ancestor of such creatures as Tyrannosaurus rex. Todd Marshall, AP An illustration shows Eodromaeus, which scientists believe was the ...
Giant Flying Lizard Could Cross Whole Continents
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Coast-to-coast nonstop flights. Not bad for a giant lizard. According to a new study published by palaeontologists in England and the United States, not only did the giraffe-sized lizard, known as pterosaur, fly, it flew incredibly long distances. The research by Drs. Mark Witton and Michael Habib was published today in the journal PLoS One and attempts to settle the dispute over whether, considering its size and skeletal weight, pterosaur could actually get off the ground in the first place. ''These creatures were not birds, they were flying reptiles with a distinctly ...
Prehistoric Reptile Could Fly 10,000 Miles
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Oct. 18) -- Pterosaurs -- those giant, fearsome flying creatures that lived eons ago -- could fly almost 10,000 miles at a clip, according to recent research. Moviegoers have long been thrilled by pterosaurs -- from the Greek word, pterosauros, or "winged lizard" -- going all the way back to the original 1933 "King Kong" to 1966's "One Million Years B.C.," and in more recent dinosaur film fare such as 2001's "Jurassic Park III." These prehistoric winged reptiles may have used warm air updrafts and wind currents to achieve their frequent-flier status, National Geographic reports. De ...
Dinosaur Footprint Found at NJ Construction Site
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 15) -- A former New Jersey high school science teacher has discovered something that would have wowed his students: a three-toed Jurassic dinosaur footprint embedded in a slab of rock at a construction site near his home. Chris Laskowich spotted the footprint in Clifton -- 15 miles west of New York's Empire State Building -- at an old stone quarry that's being cleared to build an 800-unit housing development. It's a popular place for fossil hunters to browse through piles of old stones once buried deep underground. Business Wire Gary Vecchiarelli, a research assistant at the New ...
Man Dreams of Bringing Dinosaurs to Central Park
By Chris Epting - AOL News
(Oct. 11) -- This past summer, a widely read news story posed the question "How many dinosaurs could live in Central Park?" In the piece, scientists theorized that a parcel the size of Central Park might have fed several warmblooded adult sauropods, or perhaps 100 cold-blooded sauropods. The headline grabbed the attention of Carl Mehling, who first thought the article was referencing something else -- something near and dear to his heart. But it wasn't. American Museum of Natural History More than 100 years ago, a plan to put dinosaurs in Manhattan's Central Park went extinct. Now, Carl ...
Fossils Indicate Earliest Dinosaurs Were Size of a Cat
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Oct. 6) -- Paleontologists say they've found the oldest evidence of the emergence of dinosaurs -- 250-million-year-old fossilized footprints that suggest the earliest ones were small, cat-size animals that walked on all fours. "We describe the indisputably oldest fossils of the dinosaur lineage: footprints from the Early Triassic (around 250 million years old) from Poland," Stephen Brusatte of New York's American Museum of Natural History and his research team wrote in the British Royal Society's biological sciences journal, Reuters reported. Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki This reconstruction shows ...
Quasimodosaurus: Hunchback Dinosaur Is a Spine-Tingling Discovery
By Michael McLaughlin - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- Move over, Quasimodo, a newly discovered dinosaur could become the biggest hunchback the world has ever known. Three Spanish paleontologists announced their discovery of Concavenator corcovatus -- which means "the hunchback hunter from Cuenca" -- in the journal Nature. The carnivorous dino lived about 130 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period and had a prominent hump on its back. Raul Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion/AFP/Getty Images This guy's real name might be Concavenator corcovatus, but you can call him Quasimodosaurus. Paleontologists in Spain ...
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