The Dinosaur Museum News

New research has revealed that some dinosaurs, closely related to Velociraptor, had grooved teeth that would have delivered a poisonous bite to kill its prey. Sinornithosaurus, a feathered raptor, had a series of fang-like teeth similar to some venomous lizards and snakes. These grooved teeth were on the upper jaw and are believed to have transferred poison into the dinosaur’s prey. Continue Reading…

Jurassic Park came a step closer to reality with the announcement that a scientist from the Brigham Young University had successfully extracted DNA from what are most likely to be the bones of dinosaurs. The bone fragments from a limb and rib are from a large 80 million year old animal and were found associated with other dinosaur material. Continue Reading…

The Dinosaur Museum is open  most days of the Christmas and New Year holidays. It is open daily up until, and including, Wednesday 23rd December. The Musem is then closed from 24th to 26th December inclusive. The Dinosaur Museum reopens on Sunday 27th December and is then open daily including Bank Holiday Monday and New Year’s Day for the rest of the festive break. Opening times are from 10am to 4.30pm. The Museum is in the centre of historic Dorchester a gateway town to the Jurassic Coast.

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The first reasonable complete dinosaur skeleton ever to be found was of Hadrosaurus foulkii, and it was unearthed in 1858 in New Jersey, USA. A decade later Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was responsible for the mounting of this skeleton for display. Hawkins is little known today but was a British artist and naturalist who worked with Darwin, Owen, and Huxley amongst others. Continue Reading…

Most people would agree that the planet is experiencing Climate Change at the present. The causes for this are hotly debated though. Throughout the history of the Earth it has experienced many Climate Change events, the most recent being the last Ice Age. The extinction of the dinosaurs can also be partly attributed to climate change. Leaders from all over the World have flown into Copenhagen to discuss Continue Reading…

Discovered in 2007 Lyuba is the superbly preserved remains of a baby mammoth. The mammoth had been frozen in the permafrost of Siberia and its body had been mummified. It was then exposed and washed down stream until it was found by a herdsman. Now a team of top scientists have been assembled to study the remains of the mummy.
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One third of all dinosaur species may never have existed. This is the astonishing claim by renowned palaeontologist Jack Horner. As more and more dinosaur remains have been discovered and new techniques have been used to study these remains it has been seen that some dinosaurs once thought to be new species are in fact an existing species but at a different growth stage. Continue Reading…