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1. [N] 2013 Dinosaur tail found in Tataouine region of Tunisia

(DinoNews)

... in March 2011. The discovery, made some 500 km south of the capital, was led by a team of researchers from Tunisia’s national mining authority, Italy’s Bologna University and experts from Poland. Source: ...

2. [N] 2013 K/Pg Extinction: Re-evaluation of the Heat/Fire Hypothesis

(DinoNews)

Robertson, D.S., Lewis, W.M., Sheehan, P.M. & Toon, O.B. (2013) K/Pg Extinction: Re-evaluation of the Heat/Fire Hypothesis.Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences (advance online publication) ...

3. [EMP] Gorgosaurus

(EMP Fossils)

... River Valley, Alberta, Canada. The specimen is still labeled Albertosaurus libratus, recent research by The Royal Tyrrell Museum has shown that Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus do represent different genera. ...

4. Introduction letter

(Eurodino Museum Project)

... your data about dinosaurs in display in European Museums. Good research Octávio Mateus The Eurodino Museum Project is open to contributions of information about dinosaurs in European museums.  ...

5. The Leader of the Search for Illinois Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... Illinois State Geological Survey in Champaign, Illinois. He received the title of Research Assistant in the Coal Section, a position that would provide the basis for a career\'s worth of study. Jacobson ...

6. What Factors May Lead to Periodic Mass Extinctions? by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... on the dinosaur extinction research of the father-and-son combo of Luis and Walter Alvarez. While researching plate tectonic data in Gubbio, Italy, the younger Alvarez, Walter, became intrigued ...

7. Jan Smit-The Greatest Dutch Paleontologist...Ever? by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... were dated to 65 million years ago: the age of the K-T extinction. Exactly where was the crater? Luis Alvarez didn\'t quite seem to care. Walter Alvarez didn\'t lead a massive search and rescue ...

8. The Eastern European Dinosaur Specialist by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... Cretaceous life. Dr. David Weishampel, of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is best known for discovering, researching, and naming several of these amazing species. ...

9. Antarctica\'s Dinosaur Maven by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... to dinosaurs listed them as sluggish, cold-blooded reptiles, slowly wandering the hot and arid landscapes in search of food. But, during the late 1960\'s, as much of the United States and world was engulfed ...

10. A Heart of Stone by Fred Bervoets

(Paleozoica)

... in near Rome, Italy earlier this decade, when Italian researchers used ultraviolet light to peer inside the chest of a fossil baby dinosaur and found its organs were laid out like a bird\'s or mammal\'s. ...

11. A portrait of Walter Alvarez by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... where he later received his Ph.D. in his selected field of geology. From Princeton Dr. Alvarez took many postdoctoral positions around the world, including research posts in Italy, Libya, the Netherlands, ...

12. From the oldest dinosaur to the odd fish eating Suchomimus by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... with the intention of excavating museum quality specimens, such as the great Barnum Brown. Some fossil hunters search countless formations to gather information on how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals ...

13. Hateg Dinosaurs by Fred Bervoets

(Paleozoica)

... belong to a derived maniraptorian. Elopteryx Elopteryx (\"Marsh wing\") was originally identified as an advanced Cretaceous bird based on the shape of the femur. And is now by some researchers ...

14. Theory of Birds\' Evolution under fire by Fred Bervoets

(Paleozoica)

... are just like those of birds. The researchers think the feathers evolved for flight rather than insulation. Providing warmth is the more likely function of the downy feathers sported by some much ...

15. Australian dinosaurs by Graeme Worth

(Paleozoica)

... them up for transport to the Queensland Museum for research. In more recent years paleontologists have been able to revisit these areas and make new finds (such as additional remains of Minmi and Muttaburrasaurus). ...

16. What About the Susan Who Found Sue by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... love with the country, and returned whenever she could, always looking for new adventures. On one of her visits Hendrickson decided to take a detour from diving, searching for some of the amber mines she ...

17. Just How Did the Dinosaurs Die Out by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... the evidence to his lab and compared the specimens. After much research and time, Sheehan concluded that the ecologic diversity did indeed remain constant up until the K-T boundary, proving that the dinosaurs ...

18. The queen of dinosaur poop! by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... California. Her research, including of course-dinosaur dung-is fully funded by grant money. Many dinosaur fans consider Dr. Karen Chin as one of paleontology\'s \"rising stars.\" One of the major ...

19. The World\'s Dinosaur Track Expert by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... Ph.D., and received a position as a research associate in Glasgow, Scotland. Lockley kept this job for four years, and in 1980 received a job as professorat the University of Colorado. As a young ...

20. A Fitting Final Portrait of the past Millennium by Steve Brusatte

(Paleozoica)

... The same holds true with paleontology, a science that was invented during the last millennium. Over the 300 year history of the field several men have risen from the ranks of researcher to fossil icon; ...