Dinosaur News

Here they are, one more time-woolly mammoths Manny and Ellie now getting ready for parenthood, saber-tooth tiger Diego scared of losing his edge, acorn-loving squirrel Scrat finding romance in Scratte, scatty sloth Sid stumbling upon dinosaur eggs.

Portland Arts Watch put aside the Summer Blockbuster "project" for a few weeks there while we followed other things.

"ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS" Manny, Diego and Sid are in for quite a time when Sid decides he wants to start a family and unwittingly kidnaps dinosaur eggs.

G'day ... the names of three new species of dinosaur make them sound like Olympic mascots / Image supplied Three new dinosaur species found Named after Banjo Paterson's characters Local coverage at The Courier-Mail THREE new species of Australian dinosaur have been discovered in a prehistoric billabong in western Queensland.

When science and cinema collide, the story wins. The makers of "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" had to fully embrace that idea for their franchise - especially Part 3, which opened Wednesday.

Review in a Hurry: Though it's not as obnoxious as the trailers might imply, the latest animated adventures of a motley mammalian menagerie from prehistoric times are about as exciting as watching snow melt.

For an online film guide, go to augustachronicle.com/movies : RELEASED WEDNESDAY ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS : Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah return to provide the voices for the various prehistoric critters in the third installment of the popular computer-animated franchise, this one in 3-D, for added value.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs The prehistoric shenanigans continue as Manny, Sid, Diego, and Ellie crack-wise and mock the hard work of paleontologists in the umpteen sequel to the original Ice Age .

Liam Lacey From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009 04:19PM EDT I ce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Directed by Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thermeier Featuring the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg Classification: PG In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs , every character is like the ...

The extremely well-preserved remains of a 66-million-year-old hadrosaur, known as a "dinosaur mummy," have just yielded soft-tissue skin structures and organic molecules, according to a new study.

In olden days, every village had one: an idiot. Just one, though. A village with too many idiots collected the extra ones and put them on a ship of fools.

Manny, Ellie, Scratte and Sid the sloth return for another romp through the fossil record.

Shared custody: Momma T. rex is none too happy when she discovers Sid the sloth has "adopted" her babies.

A A A' Think you grind your teeth? Pity the ancient hadrosaur. Their jaws weren't hinged in the same way as modern people and animals, and researchers have long wondered how these ancient animals handled food.

These are teeth from the lower jaw of a hadrosaur, Edmontosaurus, showing its multiple rows of leaf-shaped teeth.

It doesn't take a paleontologist to know that there were no dinosaurs in the Ice Age.

As the Ice Age series returns to cinemas with its third installment, Rob Driscoll asks the co-directors what it will bring.

Metcalf's Screening Room: "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" "Ice age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs," isn't daring but is funny most of the time.

Pretty much any sign of creative life gets left out in the cold in "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs," the monotonous, strictly by-the-numbers third edition of the wildly lucrative animated franchise.

Long before herds of buffalo stampeded across the Prairies, dinosaurs roamed the area that would become southwestern Saskatchewan.