Landmark Study: Dinosaurs Were in Their Prime When Asteroid Hit Earth
Landmark study reveals that dinosaurs dominated the world right up until a deadly asteroid hit Earth, leading to their mass extinction, around 66 million years…
Landmark study reveals that dinosaurs dominated the world right up until a deadly asteroid hit Earth, leading to their mass extinction, around 66 million years…
Diplodocids – large herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails – may have been able to move their tails like bullwhips at speeds of up…
Zuul shows that ankylosaurs may have also used their tail clubs for social dominance. Scientists have found new evidence for how armored dinosaurs used their…
Ancient Iowan superpredator got big by front-loading its growth in its youth. Fossils found only at the Field Museum reveal the growth history of Whatcheeria….
Prehistoric footprints thought to be made by a vicious dinosaur predator were revealed by artificial intelligence to in fact be from a timid herbivore. University…
Data from fossils and modern carcasses indicates a simple path to preserving dinosaur skin. Dinosaur “mummies” aren’t as exceptional as we might expect. That’s because…
Over 100 years ago a tiny Triassic fossil reptile was first discovered in the northeast of Scotland. Now, a new analysis has revealed it to…
During two digs in Zimbabwe in 2017 and 2019, a graduate student from Virginia Tech discovered and unearthed the fossil with the assistance of other…
Dartmouth-led research fortifies link between mega volcanoes and mass extinctions. What killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period?…
Reptiles had one heck of a coming-out party just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and the start of…
A study reveals how dinosaurs carried their massive weight. Researchers have solved a long-standing mystery by figuring out how sauropod dinosaurs, such as the Brontosaurus…
Harvard researchers find rapid evolution of reptiles was triggered by nearly 60 million years of global warming and climate change. Researchers can explore the impact…
A newly discovered impact crater below the seafloor suggests that more than one asteroid may have hit Earth during the time when dinosaurs went extinct….
According to new research, large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces. While…
Plesiosaur fossils discovered in an ancient riverbed suggests some species, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater. Fossils of small plesiosaurs,…
Paleontologists find insufficient evidence that the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex should be reclassified. A bold assertion made earlier this year that fossils identified as belonging to…
Discovery provides insight into the evolution and anatomy of big, carnivorous dinosaurs. Researchers discovered a new huge, meat-eating dinosaur, dubbed Meraxes gigas. The new dinosaur…
Meraxes gigas — a new species of dinosaur has been discovered with disproportionally short arms just like T. rex called the Meraxes gigas. Tyrannosaurs (like…