Tracking Gigantic Carnivorous Dinosaurs From Australia’s Jurassic Park
North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus – now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs. The…
North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus – now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs. The…
An international research team has been stunned to discover that some species of ancient crocodiles walked on their two hind legs like dinosaurs and measured…
A new study reveals the Chicxulub impact crater may have harbored a vast and long-lived hydrothermal system after the catastrophic impact event linked to the…
Paleontologists at St Petersburg University created the most detailed virtual 3D-model of the endocranial cast and blood vessels of the head of an ankylosaurian. Paleontologists…
More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram (~2900 lbs), armor-plated dinosaur ate its last meal, died, and was washed out to sea in…
Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 dinosaur bones from the Jurassic Mygatt-Moore Quarry, a 152-million-year-old fossil deposit in western Colorado, looking for bite marks. They found…
The first ever specimen of a pterodactyl, more commonly found in China and Brazil, has been found in the United Kingdom. A fossil hunter recently…
In Colorado quarry: Oddly abundant scavenging and first evidence of Allosaurus cannibals. Among dinosaurs of ancient Colorado, scavenging and possibly cannibalism were responses to a…
Research finds leg length gave giant predatory dinosaurs the advantage of efficiency, not speed as previously thought. Long legs may make good runners, but they’re…
Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research led by Queen Mary University of London has shown that…
A new study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and Hokkaido University and Okayama University of Science…
Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin Oshkosh analysis of raptor teeth published in the…
Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer finds unique swimming adaptations in a dinosaur. Scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic habitats. Now,…
The Kem Kem beds in Morocco are famous for the spectacular fossils found there, including at least four large-bodied non-avian theropods, several large-bodied pterosaurs, and…
International team of researchers traces the history of brain evolution from tyrannosaurs to modern crows. An international team of evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed…
Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years–much longer than any species of modern bird. Despite their…
Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world’s oldest dinosaur eggs. An international team of scientists led by the University of the Witwatersrand in…
A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ecosystems were structured, how dinosaurs and co-occurring animals were distributed across the landscape, how they…