‘Red gene’ in birds and turtles suggests dinosaurs had bird-like colour vision (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Aug 2016
The findings, published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provide evidence that the 'red gene' originated around 250 million years ago, predating the split of the turtle lineage from the archosaur line, and runs right the way through turtle and bird evolution....

Dinosaurs Saw The World In Shades Of Red

Edit IFL Science 03 Aug 2016
What’s far less clear, though, is what the world looked like through their eyes. As a new genetics study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals, they may have been seeing red – quite literally ... It would have initially evolved in archelosaurs, a group that contains turtles and archosaurs, the latter of which comprises all birds, crocodilians, pterosaurs, and, significantly, the non-avian dinosaurs....

Review: ‘Abzu’ Lets You Explore the Sublime Waters of Creation

Edit Time Magazine 02 Aug 2016
Abzû is a beautiful game the way “The tornado uncoiled harmlessly into the air it was made of” is a beautiful sentence ... Yes, Abzû, out for PlayStation 4 and PC on August 2, is in the most basic sense a swimming simulator ... 505 Games ... Threadfin butterflyfish and powder blur tang might dart about one area, while Cretaceous glow-eyed archosaurs and mottled elasmosaurs swoosh through another ... 505 Games ... 505 Games....

No fearsome roar? Dinosaurs likely cooed like birds, study says

Edit The Oklahoman 13 Jul 2016
AUSTIN, Texas — If the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” cooed instead of roared, would they be as intimidating?. Just as the movie franchise inaccurately depicts how dinosaurs look, it may also be remiss in showing the prehistoric creatures roaring, according to a new study ... “Our results show that closed-mouth vocalization has evolved at least 16 times in archosaurs, a group that includes birds, dinosaurs and crocodiles ... ....
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Not so terrible: Many dinosaurs cooed rather than roared

Not so terrible: Many dinosaurs cooed rather than roared

Edit CNN 13 Jul 2016
(CNN)"Jurassic Park" may have seared the vision of dinosaurs as scary, scaly creatures into many of our minds, but new findings further undermine the terrible lizards' ferocity. We already know that most dinosaurs were feathered and brightly-colored like birds ... Photos ... Hide Caption. 1 of 10 ... "Our results show that closed-mouth vocalization has evolved at least 16 times in archosaurs, a group that includes birds, dinosaurs and crocodiles ... ....

Jurassic Park might have gotten this one trait about dinosaurs completely wrong

Edit Business Insider 12 Jul 2016
Tyrannosaurus quickly grew from about the size of a horse to supersized monsters. It’s 65 million years ago ... A T ... coo ... archosaurs (birds and crocodiles). They examined the origin and the evolution of the archosaur vocal organ and the enormous repertoire of sounds that it can produce ... These closed-mouth vocalizations, the researchers found, emerged in “diverse archosaur species depending on behavioral or environmental circumstances.” ... ....

Jurassic Park might have gotten this one trait of dinosaurs completely wrong

Edit Business Insider 12 Jul 2016
Tyrannosaurus quickly grew from about the size of a horse to supersized monsters. It’s 65 million years ago ... A T ... coo ... archosaurs (birds and crocodiles). They examined the origin and the evolution of the archosaur vocal organ and the enormous repertoire of sounds that it can produce ... These closed-mouth vocalizations, the researchers found, emerged in “diverse archosaur species depending on behavioral or environmental circumstances.” ... ....

Dinosaurs May Have Cooed Instead of Roared, Scientists Find

Edit Time Magazine 12 Jul 2016
“Our results show that closed-mouth vocalization has evolved at least 16 times in archosaurs, a group that includes birds, dinosaurs and crocodiles....

Dinosaurs May Have Been Cooing To Each Other

Edit IFL Science 12 Jul 2016
The classic image of a dinosaur shows it with its head tilted back, bellowing a ferocious roar. Yet in reality, we don’t really know what noises the beasts actually made ... Think giant dove, only with gnashing teeth ... What they found was that the ability to make squeaks and squawks without opening the bill has actually evolved separately more than 16 times in the group that contains birds and crocodiles known as Archosaurs ... ....

Dinosaurs may have cooed like doves (The University of Texas at Austin)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Jul 2016
'Our results show that closed-mouth vocalization has evolved at least 16 times in archosaurs, a group that includes birds, dinosaurs and crocodiles ... Researchers still are not certain about how the ancestors of modern archosaurs vocalized ... can emerge in diverse archosaur species depending on behavioral or environmental circumstances, Riede said....

T is for Texas, D is for Dino: UT Professor Part of Dallas Dinosaur Dig (The University of Tennessee at Knoxville)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jun 2016
Discovered in 2003 in Arlington, Texas, by amateur fossil hunters Art Sahlstein, Bill Walker, and Phil Kirchoff, the fossil site-now known as the Arlington Archosaur Site (AAS)-preserves a nearly complete ancient ecosystem ninety-five million to 100 million years old in an area undergoing rapid residential development....

Professor and Student Diggin' Texas (University of Wisconsin - Parkside)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jun 2016
Excavators at the Arlington Archosaur Site, Arlington, Texas. Arlington Archosaur Site ... The fossil site, now known as the Arlington Archosaur Site (AAS), preserves a nearly complete ancient ecosystem 95-100 million years old ... As the name suggests, archosaurs, or the group that includes dinosaurs (including birds) and crocodylians, are the most common fossils at the AAS....

Dinosaurs may have cooed like pigeons to communicate

Edit DNA India 23 Jun 2016
"Our results show that closed-mouth vocalisation has evolved at least 16 times in archosaurs, a group that includes birds, dinosaurs and crocodiles ... Researchers still are not certain about how the ancestors of modern archosaurs vocalised ... Since dinosaurs are members of the archosaur group, and many had large body sizes, it is likely that some ......
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