Reverbiage: Stories from NPR tagged 'dinosaurs'

Dinosaur Dads Cared For Young, Researchers Say

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:23:00 EST

New research suggests the trend of paternal care in bird species may have been passed down by their ancient relatives: dinosaurs. In analyzing fossilized dinosaur nests and bones, researchers found evidence that males may have been the caregivers.

Judge Uses Barney As Punishment For Noise

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:43:00 EST

A judge in Fort Lupton, Colo., has found a novel way to punish young noise offenders. Judge Paul Sacco is making them pay the requisite fine and making them face his own list of songs they're guaranteed to hate, including Barry Manilow and Barney the purple dinosaur.

Detroit Automakers Face Extinction

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST

In recent decades, U.S. automakers ignored both fuel economy and beauty. If they don't change their ways, other companies and other means of transportation will succeed — and Detroit will become a dinosaur.

Study: Oxygen Levels Have Varied Little Over Ages

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:37:00 EDT

A new study finds oxygen has probably not varied all that dramatically since dinosaurs first roamed the Earth. Scientists in Ireland say the atmosphere seems to have been at least 15 percent oxygen for hundreds of millions of years.

Stone Age Graveyard Unearthed In Sahara

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:18:00 EDT

Scientists from the National Geographic Society were hunting for dinosaur bones in the Tenere Desert in Niger. Instead, they found the graves and remains of people who lived there as long as 10,000 years ago.

Dinosaur Fossils In Utah Inspire 'Jr. Paleontologists'

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:01:00 EDT

At the Dinosaur National Monument, young visitors search for Jurassic-era bones and pledge to take care of their environments.

Midsize SUVs Going the Way of the Dinosaur...

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:28:02 EDT

Experts are announcing the death of the midsize SUV. High fuel prices are the reason. The Associated Press quotes one expert brilliantly mixing metaphors, saying of the big vehicles: "They're dinosaurs. Put a fork in them."

Pet Store Owner Buys Fossilized Dinosaur Dung

Fri, 02 May 2008 06:00:00 EDT

Host Steve Inskeep has today's Last Word in business.

T. Rex Protein Evidence Links Dinosaurs to Birds

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Analysis of proteins found in a scrap of collagen from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone provides strong evidence for the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of modern-day birds. Paleontologist Mary Higby Schweitzer talks about the finding and what it means for our understanding of evolution.

Tight Rhymes for Tykes and Triceratops

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:22:00 EDT

Boasting a cast of respected rap veterans — and their dinosaur avatars — the new collection called Baby Loves Hip Hop is all about helping pre-schoolers get their pre-historic party started.

N. Dakota Teen Finds Dinosaur Skin and Bones

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:00:00 EST

At last, a dinosaur with skin and bones. It was discovered several years ago by a teen on his family ranch in North Dakota. The 67 million-year-old Hadrosaur has actual fossilized skin with scales and a suggestion of stripes. A British paleontologist says it's "King Tut meets T. Rex."

'Mesozoic Cow' Rises from the Sahara Desert

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:30:00 EST

The sands of the Sahara Desert have delivered up one of nature's more bizarre experiments: a dinosaur with a mouth like a vacuum cleaner. Hundreds of little teeth worked like a conveyor belt of scissors to graze on low-growing ferns and primitive plants.

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Traced to Breakup Event

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:14:00 EDT

New research suggests that the impact believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth 65 million years ago can be traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt.

Adapt, Move or Die: Prehistoric Climate Change

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:55:00 EDT

The discovery of an ancient elephant skeleton in England raises questions about the global climate in prehistoric times. With the exception of some dinosaurs, the 10-ton elephant was the largest animal ever to walk the Earth.

Da HipHop Raskalz, Kickin' It Grade School

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:45:00 EDT

Most mainstream hip-hop artists rap about money, sex and other adult preoccupations. The MCs of Da HipHop Raskalz have an entirely different set of interests, including dinosaurs, fractions -- and, most of all, candy. That's because they are grade-school students in Harlem, and their producer is an acclaimed classical musician with a rather unusual day job.

Residue from Ancient Rain May Redate Sierras

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:00:00 EDT

Scientists studying raindrop residue say California's Sierra Nevada mountains may date nearly to the dinosaurs' era. That conflicts with evidence suggesting the mountains are much younger.

Dinosaur Jr., For Real

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:00:00 EDT

Dinosaurs are often thought of as giants of the Earth. But on an island in what is now Europe, 150 million years ago, petite dinosaurs ruled. In this environment, Sauropods, known to reach 80 feet in length in other parts of the world, were instead "island dwarves." Island life made them roughly the same size as a modern horse. The phenomenon has been getting attention elsewhere to explain a new species of tiny humans. Experts say the case is also an example of how much more dinosaur experts are learning by doing the unthinkable: cutting open dinosaur bones.

T. Rex Had Humble Origins

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST

The most famous of all the giant meat-eating predators that walked the Earth actually started out rather small, at least as dinosaurs go. A fossil dubbed the "crowned dragon" shows it was a 90-million-year climb to the top of the food chain for T. rex.

A Time to Read: Alan Cheuse's Holiday List

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST

Time to read during the holidays, away from school and work, is a gift you give yourself, author and book critic Alan Cheuse says. His suggested list of 2005 holiday gifts includes tales of space, dinosaurs, music and a mystical poet.

Scientists Make Several New Dinosaur Finds

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST

Last month, fossil-hunters in Argentina reported the discovery of the earliest and most complete example of a dromaeosaurid known. The dromaeosaurid was a small dinosaur related to today's birds. Last week researchers announced the discovery of a fossil crocodile-like animal with the head that looks more like a Tyrannosaurus.

'Badlands', A Very Short Story

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST

A group of paleontologists doing field work in the badlands of South Dakota are the subject of this next item -- a short, short story by Jeff Ryan. In it, a dig for dinosaur fossils turns up more than expected.

Dinosaur Jr. Rises from the Ashes -- to Rock

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Dinosaur Jr. helped define and shape indie and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early '90s. The reunited band is now back on the road after issuing re-mastered versions of their first three albums: Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me, and Bug.

Dinosaur Remains Found in Oregon

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Two amateur paleontologists kept their eyes to the ground in Oregon on one of their recent hikes and discovered what are believed to be the first remains of a marine reptile called the plesiosaur to be unearthed in the Pacific Northwest.

Influential Paleontologist John Ostrom, 77, Dies

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Dr. John Ostrom, a Yale University paleontologist who pursued the idea that birds descended from dinosaurs, helping to revolutionize our thinking about the extinct creatures, has died. He was 77.

Dinosaur's Sex No Longer a Mystery

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Dinosaur researchers have achieved another first. They've discovered a way to tell the sex of a dinosaur. The secret is in the bone.