A George Washington University expedition to the Gobi Desert of China has enabled researchers to solve the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds independent of birds.
The research found that the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles - precursors of feathers - in alternate orange and white rings down its tail, and that the early bird Confuciusornis had patches of white, black and orange-brown colouring.
Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr. Erich Fitzgerald has made groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25-million-year-old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria, Australia.
A birdlike dinosaur related to Velociraptor took down prey with its fanglike teeth. Sinornithosaurus, a carnivorous Chinese dinosaur that likely feasted on other dinosaurs, was venomous, according to new analysis of its teeth and skull.
The recently unearthed theropod, Tawa hallae, solidifies the link between primitive carnivores and those that evolved into modern birds. The earliest stages of dinosaur evolution remain buried under eons of rock, but the discovery of this carnivore fossil in the U.S. Southwest promises to dispel some of the debate about how these beasts spread across the globe-and about the origins of the group that led to modern birds...
This past fall paleontologists unveiled two tyrannosaurs new to science that are shaking up long-standing ideas about everyone's favorite mega-predator. The finds are forcing researchers to reevaluate the origin of the tyrannosaur body plan and reconsider what they thought they knew about this well-studied group. "Our view of tyrannosaur evolution has changed dramatically," says doctoral student Stephen L. Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City...
Scarica il PDF con le iniziative didattiche di Paola D'Agostino, naturalista e paleontologa, curatrice della didattica al Museo di Besano per ben 6 anni e poi al Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale di Lugano, in Svizzera, con specifiche competenze nel Triassico del Monte San Giorgio e nel Cretaceo del Libano.
Fossili Veraci in visita al nuovo eccezionale giacimento francese
The stunning remains of a "four-winged" dinosaur have confirmed that birds owe their ancestry to two-footed dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago, the world's most famous fossil-hunter said.
Finalmente tutti i giovani appassionati dei dinosauri avranno la possibilita' di leggere la 3° ristampa del libro I DINOSAURI dalla A alla Z di Paola D'Agostino.
Azienda nata nel cuore della Valceresio, la Evolution eredita l'esperienza della titolare, Paola D'Agostino, dottoressa in Scienze Naturali, per anni Responsabile dei Servizi Didattici presso il Museo Civico dei Fossili di Besano (VA), ricercatrice nell'ambito paleontologico, autrice di varie opere didattiche e divulgative ad argomento naturalistico.
Finalmente tutti i giovani appassionati dei dinosauri avranno la possibilita' di leggere la 3° ristampa del libro 
