Metabolic adaptations, air sac-filled bones, and evolutionary pressure likely contributed to dinosaurs’ gigantism. Summary Dinosaur gigantism was likely a result of several interconnected factors. Metabolic adaptations, allowing for efficient energy use and faster growth Read More
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Tyrannosaurus rex may have been the ultimate bone-crusher, but new research shows that other massive carnivorous dinosaurs followed very different hunting strategies. By using 3D skull scans of 18 species, scientists discovered that while T. rex Read More
Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago (formerly Read More