Dinosaurs & Fossils News

Earth Extinctions Blamed on Cosmic Speed Bump

SPACE.com - Tue May 13, 7:02 AM ET

The sun bounces up and down as it roams the Milky Way, and such wavering might have hurled showers of comets Earth's way that caused mass extinctions, including the one that killed the dinosaurs, a new study claims.

  • US to return Argentine dinosaur eggs AP - Mon May 5, 7:57 PM ET

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A senior U.S. Homeland Security official is in Argentina to discuss money laundering, human trafficking — and dinosaur eggs.

  • What Mars Fossils Might Look Like SPACE.com - Thu May 1, 9:45 AM ET

    Fossil microbes found along an iron-rich river in Spain reveal how signs of life could be preserved in minerals found on Mars. The discovery may help to equip the next generation Mars rover with the tools it would need to find evidence of past life on the planet.

  • The reconstructed head of a Dromaeosaur-like Theropod dinosaur at the Australian Museum in Sydney, March 14, 2008. Scraps of protein from the bones of a 68 million-year-old dinosaur and a mastodon carcass confirm their places in the family tree of life on Earth, researchers reported on Thursday. (Will Burgess/Reuters)
    Protein scraps help fill in dino family tree Reuters - Fri Apr 25, 9:26 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scraps of protein from the bones of a 68 million-year-old dinosaur and a mastodon carcass confirm their places in the family tree of life on Earth, researchers reported on Thursday.

  • Gunk in T. Rex Fossil Confirms Dino-Bird Lineage LiveScience.com - Thu Apr 24, 2:16 PM ET

    Tyrannosaurus rex just got a firm grip on the animal kingdom's family tree, right next to chickens and ostriches. New analyses of soft tissue from a T.rex leg bone re-confirm that birds are dinosaurs' closest living relatives.