ANSYS Sponsors Dinosaurs Exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
SOUTHPOINTE, Pa., March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ANSYS, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSS ), a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced it is a sponsor of the Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Nat...Ancient fossils shed light on anatomical changes accompanying evolution of first land vertebrates
...d all sorts of niches and habitats. And they varied tremendously in size from about 10 cm long to 5 meters." Long before mammals, birds, and even dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the first four-legged creatures made their first steps onto land, and quickly inhabited a wide range of terrestrial environments. Th...Humans Weren't Always 'So Special,' Expert Says
...om an animal species called Ignacius graybullianus , part of a group of primates known as plesiadapiforms. They evolved in the 10 million years after dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth. Researchers used CT scans to take more than 1,200 cross-sectional images of the skull and combined them into a three-di...Lifelike Robot Provides Innovative Rehabilitation Treatment for Patients
... Sacred Heart Hospital seeks to continue providing innovative methods of therapy that simultaneously heal and engage patients and hopes to add more dinosaurs to the Physical Rehabilitation Center in the near future. About Sacred Heart Hospital Sacred Heart Hospital strives to provide patient...Scientists Make Clones of Mice Dead 16 Years
...ning how to manipulate stem cells is an important enterprise, and scientists should be fully engaged in this. Whether we apply it toward bringing back dinosaurs or taking care of real needs on this planet is another question," said Richard Finnell, professor in the Center for Environmental and Genetic Medicine...Charlie Rose Science Series Wraps Up With Episode on 'The Imperative and Promise of Science'
...ia at San Francisco, and Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine. Science continues to hold the key to many of the fascinating aspects of humanity. From dinosaurs to space travel, mankind's ability to discover and fully explore natural phenomena is a direct result of scientific innovation and understanding. Th...Bonn scientists simulate dinosaur digestion in the lab
...versity of Bonn are researching which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years ago. They want to find out how the dinosaurs were able to become as large as they did. In actua...issenschaften) is investigating which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years a...Dinosaurs Had Teen Pregnancies, Too
...al MONDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- dinosaurs experienced rapid growth during adolescence and re... does not occur in reptiles. This finding about dinosaurs suggests that they suffered high death rates as ad...e analyzed fossilized bones from adolescent female dinosaurs and identified a layer of calcium-rich bone tissue...NEWSWEEK: International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, December 10, 2007 Issue
...ouse. The crisis is in large part rooted in the country's peculiar corporate culture. Japan Inc. still remains dominated by big, vertically integrated dinosaurs with little maneuverability and a marked disinclination to creativity. One exception: Nintendo, the gaming company whose innovation has enabled it to ...New research shows dinosaurs may have been smaller than we thought
FAIRFAX, Va., June 24, 2009 For millions of years, dinosaurs have been considered the largest creatures ever to walk on land. While they still maintain this status, a new study suggests that some dinosaurs may actually have weighed as little as half as much as previously thought. In the stud...Evidence of the 'Lost World' -- did dinosaurs survive the end Cretaceous extinctions?
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's account of an isolated community of dinosaurs that survived the catastrophic extinction event 65 million years ago, has no less appeal now than it did when it was written a century ago. Various Hollywood versions have tried to recreate the lost world of din...Field Museum paleontologist leads study on two new dinosaurs from China
During the summers of 2006 and 2007, an international team of researchers from China and the United States excavated a treasure trove of dinosaur skeletons from Early Cretaceous rocks in the southern part of the Gobi Desert near the ancient Silk Road city of Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, China. Two o...Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together
A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi Desert in western Inner Mongolia. The Sudden sudden death of the herd in a mud trap provid...'Fattysaurus' or 'thinnysaurus'? How dinosaurs measure up with laser imaging
Karl Bates and his colleagues in the palaeontology and biomechanics research group have reconstructed the bodies of five dinosaurs, two T. rex (Stan at the Manchester Museum and the Museum of the Rockies cast MOR555), an Acrocanthosaurus atokensis , a Strutiomimum sedens and an Edmontosaurus...Male dinosaurs may have been prehistoric babysitters, study shows
COLLEGE STATION, Dec 18, 2008 Those ferocious Hollywood meat-eating dinosaurs you're used to seeing in the movies very possibly had a much softer side: the males might even have been sort of prehistoric babysitters, according to a far-flung study conducted by a Texas A&M University researcher. ...CT scans reveal that dinosaurs were airheads
ATHENS, Ohio (Dec. 8, 2008) Paleontologists have long known that dinosaurs had tiny brains, but they had no idea the beasts were such airheads. A new study by Ohio University researchers Lawrence Witmer and Ryan Ridgely found that dinosaurs had more air cavities in their heads than expected. ...Study of polar dinosaur migration questions whether dinosaurs were truly the first great migrators
EdmontonContrary to popular belief, polar dinosaurs may not have traveled nearly as far as originally thought when making their bi-annual migration. University of Alberta researchers Phil Bell and Eric Snively have suggested that while some dinosaurs may have migrated during the winter season, ...Princeton geoscientist offers new evidence that meteorite did not wipe out dinosaurs
A Princeton University geoscientist who has stirred controversy with her studies challenging a popular theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs has compiled powerful new evidence asserting her position. Gerta Keller, whose studies of rock formations at many sites in the United States, Me...Mass extinctions and the evolution of dinosaurs
Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their rise was a slow and complicated event, and driven by two mass extinctions. "The sheer ...Cells Exhibition Opens at Maryland Science Center
...The Maryland Science Center in Baltimore is visited by more than 500,000 people each year. Popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Mysteries with full-size dinosaurs and interactive paleontology activities; a day in the life of the human body in Your Body: The Inside Story; and dozens of interactive experiments in ...Maryland Science Center Unveils Anatomical Exhibition, Body Worlds 2, on Saturday, February 2
...The Maryland Science Center in Baltimore is visited by more than 500,000 people each year. Popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Mysteries with full-size dinosaurs and interactive paleontology activities; a day in the life of the human body in Your Body: The Inside Story; and dozens of interactive experiments in ...