Hacker News with Generative AI: Dinosaurs

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed (bbc.com)
The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

Paleontology, Archaeology, United Kingdom, Dinosaurs

87 points by peutetre 16 days ago | 14 comments

What fossilized dino feces can tell us about their rise to dominance (arstechnica.com)
Paleontologists have long puzzled over how the dinosaurs—originally relatively small and of minor importance to the broader ecosystem—evolved to become the dominant species some 30 million years later. Fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs might hold important clues to how and why this evolutionary milestone came about, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature.

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Science

21 points by Brajeshwar 51 days ago | 3 comments

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence (cam.ac.uk)
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

Paleontology, Evolution, Birds, Dinosaurs, Neuroscience

124 points by gmays 61 days ago | 6 comments

Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run (newscientist.com)
Tiny tracks in South Korea symbolise a moment 120 million years ago when a dinosaur took advantage of its wings to cover ground in large leaps – the oldest track evidence of wing-assisted movement in these extinct animals.

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Science, Biology

9 points by nobody9999 85 days ago | 2 comments

How did birds survive while dinosaurs went extinct? (yahoo.com)
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Paleontology, Evolution, Extinction, Birds, Dinosaurs

28 points by isaacfrond 110 days ago | 8 comments

Where Did the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Come From? (nautil.us)
The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe.

Space, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Science, History

21 points by jnord 116 days ago | 15 comments

Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains (cbc.ca)
Paleontologists have uncovered dozens of fossils in northern B.C., only one of which came from a dinosaur that was previously known to that area.

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Canada, Fossils

96 points by curmudgeon22 122 days ago | 65 comments

If I could dissect a sauropod (svpow.com)

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Science, Biology

138 points by surprisetalk 128 days ago | 18 comments

There Are Probably Dinosaur Remains on the Moon (iflscience.com)

Space, Dinosaurs, Astronomy

11 points by geox 136 days ago | 8 comments

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (phys.org)

Paleontology, Geology, Atlantic Ocean, Dinosaurs

178 points by geox 145 days ago | 150 comments

Scientists believe they now know where the dinosaur-killing asteroid came from (cbc.ca)