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Showing posts with label palaeobiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palaeobiology. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Unexpected crash diet for dinosaurs

Scientists have developed a new technique to accurately measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought.

University of Manchester biologists used lasers to measure the minimum amount of skin required to wrap around the skeletons of modern-day mammals, including reindeer, polar bears, giraffes and elephants.