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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Dinosaurs

An artist's impression of a large asteroid impacting at Chicxulub on the Mexican coastline, which caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago, with the planet Mars and asteroid bodies in the background, in this image obtained by Reuters on August 14, 2024. (Mark Garlick/Handout via Reuters)
August 17, 2024, 11:24 am
Asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter, scientists show
Researchers publish findings that used an innovative sample analysis technique to confirm assumptions about the apocalyptic culprit that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago
By Lucie AUBOURG
A fossilized Squalicorax tooth found in an archaeological dig in Jerusalem's City of David (© Omri Lernau)
July 5, 2021, 11:27 pm
Cache of 80-million-year-old shark teeth found in Solomon-era site in Jerusalem
Researchers say 29 teeth unearthed at City of David come from animals that lived alongside dinosaurs, were brought to Judean capital, and may have been part of collection
By ToI Staff
An illustration of ‘Cooper’, the largest dinosaur found in Australia. (Vlad Konstantinov/Queensland and Eromanga Natural History museums)
June 8, 2021, 1:21 pm
New gigantic dinosaur identified in Australia, among the world’s largest
Australotitan cooperensis estimated to have stood at 5-6.5 meters high and measured 25-30 meters in length; bones discovered on museum director’s family farm
By AFP
In this Tuesday, March 7, 2006 file photo, life-sized Tyrannosaurus rex models are unloaded for a dinosaur exhibition in Potsdam, Germany. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner)
April 18, 2021, 4:02 am
2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the Earth… though not all at once
Study estimates the dinosaur species lived in North America for 1.2 million to 3.6 million years – over 127,000 generations – so its population density at any one moment was small
By Seth Borenstein
File: Uncovered dinosaur egg fossils (AP Photo/Luisa Ferreira)
February 14, 2020, 7:03 pm
Israeli scientists say dinosaur egg fossils point to warm blood
New research technique employed at Hebrew University allowed team to gauge temperature in which eggs were formed — and thus whether mother could regulate her body heat
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Artist rendering of a thanatotheristes degrootorum, a newly identified species of tyrannosaur (Julius Csotonyi/Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology)
February 11, 2020, 5:45 am
Meet T-Rex’s older cousin: Canada’s Reaper of Death
Thanatotheristes degrootorum, or Thanatos for short, roamed northern plains of America several million years before its famous relative
By AFP
Illustrative: A Hadrosaurus at Drexel University in Philadelphia. (YouTube screenshot)
February 10, 2020, 8:55 pm
Israeli researchers find modern tumor in dinosaur tail
Scientists say LCH, which affects human children today, discovered in fossil of 66-million-year-old Hadrosaurus
By ToI Staff
Two wild elephants, part of a herd that arrived at a wetland near the Thakurkuchi railway station, engage in a tussle on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam, India, on June 7, 2017. (AP / Anupam Nath)
May 6, 2019, 4:12 pm
UN says nature is in worst shape in human history
Thousand-page report approved by 109 nations concludes over 1 million species of plants and animals facing extinction
By Seth Borenstein
Dr. Evgeny Reznitsky, educational director of the Natural History Museum in Jerusalem, standing next to a dinosaur statue in the museum's outer garden on May 1, 2018. (Michael Bachner/Times of Israel)
May 2, 2018, 6:59 am
Despite outrage, Jerusalem museum vows to keep censoring evolution exhibit
Natural History Museum justifies covering up displays during visits by ultra-Orthodox groups, as many in Israel and abroad slam institution as betraying science
By Michael Bachner
Hesham Sallam, head of Mansoura university's Center for Vertebrate Paleontology, displays bones of a Cretaceous period dinosaur in Mansoura, Egypt, February 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
February 6, 2018, 4:58 pm
Rare dinosaur discovered in Egypt, could signal more finds
Paleontologists say skeleton of bus-sized plant-eater Mansourasaurus could be the tip of the sand dune for other desert discoveries
By MAGGIE HYDE
An artist's reconstruction of the newly discovered dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae on a coastline in what is now the Western Desert of Egypt. (Andrew McAfee/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
January 30, 2018, 2:00 am
Scientists discover huge Egyptian dinosaur with ties to Europe
Skeleton of elephant-sized plant-eater Mansourasaurus is the most complete from the late Cretaceous period ever found in Africa
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Dinosaur footprint in Australia. (Wikimedia Commons)
December 20, 2017, 5:25 am
Vandals take hammer to ancient Australia dinosaur footprint
Officials slam ‘sad and callous’ damage to 115 million-year-old impression at Flat Rocks in Victoria
By AFP
Illustrative: A cosplayer dressed as a dinosaur attends the MCM Comic Con at ExCeL exhibition centre in London on October 28, 2017. (AFP/Tolga AKMEN)
November 6, 2017, 8:51 pm
Israeli study: Mammals gave up night life only after dinosaurs’ demise
Tel Aviv University researchers posit many mammals maintain nocturnal features due to previous need to compete with dinosaurs
By Mariëtte Le Roux
This photo taken on June 23, 2015, shows a replica of a skeleton of a Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, a bizarre genus of herbivorous dinosaur, exhibited at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)
August 16, 2017, 5:53 pm
New find shakes up theory on dinosaur evolution
Researchers say Chilesaurus, the ‘most bizarre dinosaur ever found,’ is a missing link pointing at a common ancestor for theropods and ornithischians
By Marlowe HOOD
Feathers of a 99 million year-old bird-like dinosaur encased in amber and discovered in northern Myanmar. (YouTube screenshot)
December 8, 2016, 11:35 pm
Feathered dinosaur tail in 99-million-year-old amber
Unique find, unearthed in a market in Myanmar, provides extraordinary insight into detail, pigments, of sparrow-sized creature
By Sue Surkes
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