Paleontology

TV This Week: May 5 - 11: 'Rihanna 777'

2013-05-03 12:13:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 5 - 11, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SUNDAY Eleven teams entered, but only one team...

Did dinosaur ancestors benefit from worst extinction on Earth?

2013-04-30 15:08:00

Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a mass extinction about� 65 million years ago, but an earlier extinction event may have given their predecessors a leg up on the competition, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

Dinosaur heads home to Mongolia after odyssey ends in Queens

2013-05-06 15:31:00

� NEW YORK -- It's bad enough to go from roaming the earth as a fearsome predator to being uprooted and dragged across three continents, but to end up in a basement in Queens? No wonder the Tyrannosaurus bataar was broken up. Literally. But not for...

Four-winged dinosaur raptor feasted on fish

2013-04-23 15:20:00

Microraptor probably was as big as a hawk, had teeth like a crocodile and could spear fish like a kingfisher -- when the diminutive, four-winged dinosaur wasn’t busy plucking squirrel-like animals and other birds from trees. That’s the...

Evidence points toward solving evolutionary 'missing link'

2013-04-11 19:07:00

With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long...

Drowned dinosaur eggs' fossil remains reveal embryos grew fast

2013-04-10 17:58:00

Scientists have discovered some of the oldest dinosaur embryos ever found — a rare collection of delicate fossils that offer an unprecedented look into the remarkably speedy early development of these enormous animals. The bed of Lufengosaurus...

Scientists sequence DNA of a 'living fossil': the coelacanth

2013-04-17 10:49:00

They're big, they're furtive, they're weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn't want to dine on one, since they're endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But the African coelacanth is extremely useful in at...

Coachella 2013: Wu-Tang Clan, Jurassic 5 bring 'real hip-hop'

2013-04-15 10:51:00

"How many of y’all in here love real hip-hop?,” Raekwon asked during the Wu-Tang Clan’s performance at Coachella on Sunday night. “No disrespect to none of y'all," he continued. "But we came to steal this … tonight."...

Could extinct woolly mammoth soon be revived using fossil DNA?

2013-03-26 06:45:00

Will scientists soon be able to revive the long-extinct woolly mammoth? What about the dodo, the Chinese river dolphin or the saber-toothed cat? With the great technological leaps forward over the past decade, bringing back dead-and-gone species using...

Ancient feathered birds may have sported four wings, study says

2013-03-14 13:42:00

Some of the earliest birds hailing from the age of the dinosaurs may have sported four flying limbs, a team of Chinese researchers says. If so, 11 fossils from the lower Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago, could represent a missing link in...

Creature feature: Who’s scarier — shark with buzz-saw bite or lamprey?

2013-02-28 07:03:14

SoCal Close-Ups: A date with the Coachella Valley

2012-11-25 00:00:00

Sure, you could go to the beach again. Or you could turn your back on the Pacific and head instead for a desert land of date shakes and camel races, jumbo windmills and creationist dinosaurs, native palms and gay parties, mountain views and midcentury...

What started as a side project for Beach Fossils' Zachary Cole Smith has now sort of usurped his original band. Or, at least, DIIV made a better album, with 2012's "Oshin" taking the bleary surfer twang of Fossils and spinning it around with a dancier '80s swing.

2013-04-02 00:00:00

Part of the "Dinosaurs - Alive!" exhibit illustrates how paleontologists believe some dinosaurs, like confuciusornis, had feathers.

2013-04-01 14:43:00

This is an illustration of the High Arctic camel on Ellesmere Island during the Pliocene warm period, about 3 1/2 million years ago. The camels lived in a boreal-type forest. The habitat included larch trees, and the depiction is based on records of plant fossils found at nearby fossil deposits.

2013-03-08 00:00:00