Dinosaur

Scientists from Torondo, Canada claimed in Nature Communications Scientific Review, that they identified traces of collagen in a dinosaur fossil 195.000.000 years old. Soft tissue is extremely difficult and rare to be preserved inside fossils. But if found it can be the source of enormous amounts of information, provided that it won’t be contaminated during it extraction.

Chinese construction workers excavating bedrock recently made an explosive discovery when they inadvertently unearthed an unusual new species of feathered dinosaur. The animal lived about 66 to 72 million years ago, right before a giant impact wiped out large dinosaurs in a catastrophic mass extinction.

Three U.S. universities have issued a report warning that the Earth has entered a new period of extinction. The study by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley stated that vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normals and conclude that humans could be among the first casualties.

Tourists coming to Transylvania are usually interested in legends of Count Dracula, but a new more reptilian-based attraction aims to grab their attention.

In the town of Rasnov, not far away from the so-called "Dracula castle" in Bran, an amusement park full of life-sized dinosaurs is due to open Friday.

Tyrannosaurus rex, one of history?s most dreaded carnivores, had an odd-looking vegetarian cousin with a tiny head, long neck and stubby fingers, scientists said April 27, admitting its anatomy had them puzzled.