Jan 10
For years, people were perfectly happy believing that the series of fossilized footprints in Australia’s Lark Quarry was all that remained of an epic dinosaur stampede. Then Science happened. More »
Dec 10
Scientists Have Discovered An Ancient Lizard That Lived with the Dinosaurs and Named It Obamadon After Obama
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Yale scientists have discovered an ancient, small, insect-eating lizard in the badlands of Montana and have named it Obamadon, after President Obama. The lizard, which is less than a foot long and had “elaborate teeth with three cusps on each tooth and a slender jaw”, existed 65 million years ago. More »
Nov 30
Conventional Grand Canyon wisdom holds two things to be true: it is exceptionally deep, and about five million years old. A new study, though, has pegged the yawning chasm’s age as more than 10 times older than previously thought. More »
Nov 08
After being discovered and misidentified back in 1958, the fossil remains of a massive twenty foot long, two-ton horned dinosaur found in Alberta have finally been acknowledged as a new species. Although there’s no evidence, scientists* speculate that Xenoceratops foremostensis fled north from what is now the United States 80 million years ago after being displeased with prehistoric election results. More »
Oct 25
If you’ve always wondered how Tyrannosaurs Rex ate the horned monstrosity that was a Triceratops, you need puzzle no longer. Scientists have finally pieced together how they did it—and it was surprisingly straightforward. More »
Oct 22
The Original Jurassic Park Velociraptor Costume Makes Your Halloween Get-Up Look Plain Sad
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Despite hitting theaters almost 20 years ago, Jurassic Park and its ground-breaking special effects still holds up. And if you’ve yet to find the perfect Halloween outfit for next week, check out this behind-the-scenes look at the velociraptor costumes Stan Winston Studios created for the film. More »
Oct 13
Alt-week 10.13.12: is the Universe a simulation, cloning dinosaurs and singing mice
Posted in: Today's ChiliAlt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
Are you reading this? Seriously, are you? Sure, we know you think you are, but what if you’re just a sub-feature of a complex computer program. A sprite, nothing more than the creation of software. The problem with this question is, how would you ever know? You wouldn’t, right? Well, not so fast there. Turns out, maybe there is a way to unravel the matrix (if there is one). It’ll come as no surprise, that this is one of the topics in this week’s collection of alternative stories. Think that’s all we got? Not even close. We’ll explore the truth behind cloning dinosaurs, as well a rare performance by singing mice — all before dinner. Or is it really dinner? This is alt-week.
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Oct 10
Science Just Killed Any Hope You Ever Had of Jurassic Park Being Real [Video]
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Every so often, a scientific breakthrough comes along that completely reshapes our world, giving us untold insight and inestimable hope for a more perfect future. What a world, it makes us think, and what privilege to be a part of it. More »
Oct 01
This Fantastic Grimlock Hoodie Makes the 80s Totally Worth It [Transformers]
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If you grew up in the 1980s on a steady diet of cartoons, you probably spent many mornings captivated by the Transformers. And while Optimus Prime might have been the noble leader of the Autobots, he would never be as universally loved as the show’s real star—Grimlock—who’s now immortalized forever in this fantastic hoodie. More »
Sep 19
Taking a self-portrait might be the least of a T-Rex’s smartphone-wrangling problems, but it would definitely be the funniest. Although I’m sad we’ll never know what dinosaur duck-face looks like. [TwentyTwoWords via TDW] More »
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