A new study reveals the Chicxulub impact crater may have harbored a vast and long-lived…
Browsing: Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were a diverse group of reptiles that dominated Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the Triassic through the Cretaceous period, until their sudden extinction around 66 million years ago. They ranged from towering carnivores like Tyrannosaurus rex to gentle giants like Brachiosaurus, as well as small, bird-like species that gave rise to modern birds. Paleontologists continue to uncover new fossils and use advanced technologies to learn more about their biology, behavior, evolution, and the mass extinction event that ended their reign. Explore this page for the latest research, fossil discoveries, and evolutionary insights into the age of dinosaurs.
Paleontologists at St Petersburg University created the most detailed virtual 3D-model of the endocranial cast…
More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram (~2900 lbs), armor-plated dinosaur ate its…
Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 dinosaur bones from the Jurassic Mygatt-Moore Quarry, a 152-million-year-old fossil…
The first ever specimen of a pterodactyl, more commonly found in China and Brazil, has…
In Colorado quarry: Oddly abundant scavenging and first evidence of Allosaurus cannibals. Among dinosaurs of…
Research finds leg length gave giant predatory dinosaurs the advantage of efficiency, not speed as…
Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research…
A new study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science…
Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University…
Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer finds unique swimming adaptations in a dinosaur. Scientists have long…
The Kem Kem beds in Morocco are famous for the spectacular fossils found there, including…
International team of researchers traces the history of brain evolution from tyrannosaurs to modern crows.…
Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million…
Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world’s oldest dinosaur eggs. An international team…
A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ecosystems were structured, how dinosaurs…
A community of flying reptiles that inhabited the Sahara 100 million years ago has been…
The discovery of a new species of dromaeosaurid — a family of generally small to…