Tag: DINOSAUR

Straight from our WTF files -- thieves managed to walk off with the $100,000, five-foot-tall, remote-controlled robot dinosaur from the 'Walking With Dinosaurs' show on opening night in Guadalajara, Mexico. How the crooks got past security and into where the dino-bots were being held, or even how they managed to walk out the door with an animatronic beast the size of an eighth-grader isn't ...

While cloning is still in its infancy, the Canon corporation is doing the next best thing to genetically reproducing departed species: virtually recreating them. According to DVICE, the global imaging company, which has also designed a virtual aquarium exhibit, is developing a museum show in Chiba, Japan called "Dinosaurs -- Miracles of the Desert." Wearing virtual reality goggles, visitors to ...

Playskool's Kota the Triceratops is a robot dinosaur that uses 11 sensors to respond to touch and sound by wiggling its horns, wagging its tail and turning its head. It also plays a few "adventure themed songs." Best of all, it can't stampede or impale anyone; like the animatronic Triceratops in 'Jurassic Park,' Kota can't get up and move around. That won't stop kids from adoring it though. Like ...

Scientists in North Dakota have dug up the 67 million-year-old remains of one of the best-preserved dinosaur carcases ever. The fossil includes large sections of preserved skin and tendons, which are allowing scientists to recreate the musculature in ways that previously proved difficult. The fossil of this Hadrosaur was discovered by a 17 year-old high school sophomore named Tyler Lyson near ...