300mn-year-old fossil inspired `Alien` extra-terrestrial

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 19:55

An ancient fossil about 300 million years old inspired designers to make the extra-terrestrial antagonists in Ridley Scott`s classic sci-fi horror `Alien`.

Many species of small meat-eating dinosaurs existed than thought

Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 14:28

University of Alberta researchers have identified at least 23 species of small meat-eating dinosaurs that roamed western Canada and the United States, 85 to 65 million years ago.

Scientists find way to determine sex of ancient bird species

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 15:49

A team of paleontologists has discovered a way to determine the sex of an avian dinosaur species.

India`s first dinosaur fossil rediscovered

Last Updated: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 12:47

India`s first recorded dinosaur has been rediscovered in Kolkata, according to a top scientific journal.

Dinosaurs were swimming not running during stampede

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 14:49

Paleontologists in Queensland have found that the world`s only recorded dinosaur stampede is largely made up of the tracks of swimming, not running, animals.

Earth’s oldest fossils found in Western Australia

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:01

In a new study, researchers have discovered traces of bacteria that lived a record-breaking 3.49 billion years ago, a mere billion years after Earth formed.

Dinosaur replica at bird habitat in Chilika to be dismantled

Last Updated: Sunday, December 23, 2012, 13:35

Orissa Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) has decided to dismantle a replica dinosaur for a Jurassic Park planned at Chadheihaga Island, a bird habitat on the Chilika lake, following objection from environmentalists.

New dinosaur with giant nose discovered

Last Updated: Monday, December 10, 2012, 15:11

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur with a large prominent nose in northern Mexico, which lived about 73-million-years ago.

Scientists discover world`s oldest known dinosaur

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 15:46

Nyasasaurus parringtoni would have been alive 10 to 15 million years before any previously known dinosaurs.

Scientists discover new horned dinosaur

Last Updated: Friday, November 9, 2012, 19:43

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new two-tonne, 20-foot-long horned dinosaur that roamed the Earth about 80 million years ago.

Ecosystem changes aggravated extinction of dinosaur

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 00:17

A new study has revealed that the structure of North American ecosystems made the mass extinction of Cretaceous Period that wiped out numerous species.