Dinosaurs

An analysis of three-toed, meat-eating dinosaurs has revealed that they may have sprinted faster than a car being driven on the city roads. The footprints, left behind by these theropods over lakebed mud tens of millions of years ago, were studied by scientists. The researchers discovered two sets of fossilised footprints in Spain's La Rioja region and carried out an extensive study. According to the findings, published in the journal Nature on December 9, the makers of the footprint may well have galloped at speeds of…

Artist’s illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a mass extermination.When the asteroid now known as the Chicxulub impactor fell from outer space and slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, cockroaches were there. The violent impact caused a massive earthquake, and scientists think it also triggered volcanic eruptions thousands of miles from the impact site. Three-quarters of all plants and animals on Earth died, including all dinosaurs,…

With a lava flow in the distance, a primitively feathered theropod dinosaur carries off a mammalian victim during a snowy volcanic winter caused by massive eruptions during the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction. A new study says dinosaurs survived because they were already adapted to freezing conditions at high latitudes. Credit: Painting by Larry FelderThriving in a Series of Sudden Global Chills That Killed CompetitorsMany of us are familiar with the popular theory of how the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago: in Earth’s…

Dinosaurs lived in an endless summer, surrounded by steaming jungles and lush swamps—at least if movies such as Fantasia and Jurassic World are to be believed. But that classic image is changing. Paleontologists now know some dinosaurs lived in comparatively chilly habitats with months of darkness and occasional snow on the ground. Frigid conditions like these, a controversial new study argues, may have helped them survive one of Earth’s worst extinctions. “There are several…

Dinosaurs ruled the earth during the Jurassic period. But first, they had to make it through the end of the world. Most geologists suspect enormous volcanic eruptions were to blame for the mass extinction event at the end of the preceding Triassic period. This cataclysm spewed huge amounts of gases that geologists suspect altered the global climate and led to the extinction of nearly 80 percent of life on the planet—though the dinosaurs somehow survived and later thrived. Scientists know most extinctions took place among…

An interview with director Takuro Hiraoka While Resident Evil and Street Fighter are firmly in the spotlight right now, I’ve also been curious about Exoprimal, Capcom’s five-on-five team action game in which players go to town on hordes of no-good dinosaurs. The idea is to be better (read: faster) at completing objectives than the opposing squad, in order to appease a conniving AI named Leviathan. It’s not going to be to everyone’s tastes — and I sympathize with any ride-or-die fan who is exclusively holding out for a…

| When Holyoke Publishing Co. took over publication of the Blue Beetle title in the wake of Fox Publications, Inc's 1942 bankruptcy, they made significant changes to the direction of the character.  Some of these changes were weird, some of them were amazing, and all of it is an underappreciated aspect of the character's history. But when Victor Fox regained control over the character beginning with Blue Beetle #31, after a legal battle with Holyoke things got even weirder. Beginning with that issue, Blue Beetle slowly…

Megalonyx, an extinct ground sloth.Illustration: Steve Brusatte / The Rise and Reign of MammalsDeep time is a headache. So many changes have happened in the cosmos, on our planet, and through evolution to create the world we know today. One of the most recent major changes, relatively speaking, was the K-Pg extinction, the mass death of the dinosaurs and many other creatures in the immediate aftermath of an asteroid impact 66 million years.01:57Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DYesterday 4:32PMThe…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Move over Maverick, the dinosaurs have arrived to claim their throne. “Jurassic World: Dominion” took a mighty bite out of the box office with $143.4 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Including earnings from international showings — the film opened in various markets last weekend — “Jurassic World: Dominion,” released globally by Universal Pictures, has already grossed $389 million. And it’s just getting started. “We couldn’t be happier,” said…

via Universal One of the most praiseworthy things about the Jurassic World trilogy was Colin Trevorrow respecting the way the first three films were made, using animatronic dinosaurs as much as possible. Obviously, all these movies make heavy use of CGI to bring the prehistoric beasts to life on the big screen, but for a genuine reaction from the cast you can’t beat an intricately detailed dino on set. Isabella Sermon’s Maisie Lockwood is a relative newcomer to the Jurassic franchise, having made her debut as a…