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For Some Feathered Dinosaurs, Bigger Not Always Better

For Some Feathered Dinosaurs, Bigger Not Always Better | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Researchers have started looking at why dinosaurs that abandoned meat in favor of vegetarian diets got so big, and their results may call conventional wisdom about plant-eaters and body size into question.

 

Biologist, Dr. Lindsay Zanno of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NC State University, and Peter Makovicky of Chicago's Field Museum, published their conclusions in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2526




 

 

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Video: Cleanliness Is Next to Cockroaches - ScienceNOW

Video: Cleanliness Is Next to Cockroaches - ScienceNOW | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Video: Cleanliness Is Next to Cockroaches - ScienceNOW
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Video: Cleanliness is next to cockroaches (Science NOW on YouTube) Research team from the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at NCSU and Russia finds that fastidious insect grooming enhances sensory performance. Watch the delicate operation to learn more | http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/video-cleanliness-is-next-to-coc.html|
| paper in PNAS | http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/29/1212466110

 

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