An examination by scientists from MIT on rocks from west central India suggests that volcanoes may have caused dinosaur extinction. The scientists believe the volcanic eruption may have helped in the extinction of dinosaurs. The team of scientists thinks a volcanic eruption happened before the impact of the asteroid, 66 million years ago. It is believed that an asteroid the size of a mountain … [Read more...]
Dinosaurs: cold-blooded or warm? [Video]
The metabolism of the long extinct dinosaurs have been a mystery since long. The debate among paleontologists over whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded may end with an unusual answer i.e. the famous extinct animals may have exhibited both. A new research of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, shows that these long-dead creatures may have been a little bit of both. Modern day … [Read more...]
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded? Scientists say they were in ‘middle
Were the dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, fish and amphibians? Well… the scientists have claimed to have solved this mystery. There has been an age-old debate about the dinosaurs that whether they were slow, lumbering cold-blooded animals or had a uniquely advanced and more warm-blooded physiology. The scientists first proposed in the 19th century … [Read more...]
Dinosaurs had Amazing Bone Healing Defense Mechanism Ability
A new study has made an amazing finding about giant carnivorous dinosaurs. The researchers say, these animals apparently possessed an enormous power to heal their broken bones The new findings have been revealed by the help of powerful X-rays, researchers say. According to the researchers, dinosaur apparently possessed similar healing power as reptiles have. The researchers studied the … [Read more...]
The Chinese ‘Pompeii’ Mystery Solved?
Northeast China holds in it one of the world's richest assortment of fossil beds, dinosaurs, mammals, and many other creatures. Huge ash clouds in volcanic eruptions have preserved them from more than 100 million years ago. A new research suggest a horrid origin for the exquisitely preserved remains: They are an animal Pompeii, cooked and preserved by avalanches of superheated volcanic gas and … [Read more...]
