Results tagged “dinosaurs” from 60 Second Science

Your weekly dose of science news, The Monitor, once again raises its ugly head. (No wait, that's just the Paul Janka lookalike in our second segment. Or the Predator in our third. Hey, it's that kind of week.)

In this episode: 3 new dinosaurs discovered (only 2 of which are cool), what hotornot.com tells us about the psychology of love, a disturbing map of human impact on the world's oceans, and a "virtual patient" that looks like Operation on steroids.

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Much to the joy of small children everywhere, scientists from the University of Chicago have unearthed two new species of dinosaur in the Sahara desert and given them awesome names. To their gift shop pantheons of cool plastic figurines, museums can now add "fierce-eyed dawn shark" (Eocarcharia dinops) and "old hidden face" (Kryptops palaois)—which both sound suspiciously like old kung fu movies.

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T. Rex, you brazen hussy, you. Didn't you pay attention to the video in fifth grade? Apparently not: Tyrannosaurus Rex had teen pregnancies early in their life cycle, often before they reached sexual maturity or full size.

Researchers at Ohio University and University of California at Berkeley have found medullary bone — which allows dinosaurs to grow eggshells — in female tyrannosaurs at earlier ages than previously thought possible. This means Tyrannosaurs and other dinosaurs "grew fast, reached sexual maturity early and died young."

That's like Rebel Without A Cause, but with more teeth, scales and sex.

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As a youth, I was positive I'd grow up to be a paleontologist and discover unheard-of species and immaculately preserved specimens in the Dakota bedrock. Then I discovered girls, so I did what any self-respecting male does: I got into comic books. Shockingly, it didn't really help with ladies.

If I had stuck with my first passion, I might have become like Tyler Lyson, who discovered perhaps the best-preserved dinosaur yet. The mummified hadrosaur belongs to the duck-billed family and showcases detailed scales, skin, muscle, tendons and other soft tissue. Though it hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, the discovery is expected to yield new insight into size, body mechanics and physical appearance of dinosaurs in general.

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Footprints of both creatures have recently been discovered. But apparently the two didn't cross paths.

Reuters reports that a U.S. film crew's unveiling of fresh prints around Mt Everest has sparked a new fury of Yeti believers. Meanwhile, hunters spotted thousands of dino tracks in an ATV park in Utah, just north of the Arizona border.

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Writer John Scalzi visited and wrote about his trip to the Creation Museum, so you don't have to. You'll only really appreciate what a service this is if you've ever been there: Last time I visited, I got thrown out on my ass -- not because I disagreed with them, but because no one there would acknowledge me as the Creator and give me free funnel cakes. Ingrates.

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