Paleontologists Discover A New Giant Dinosaur, The Volgatitan
Paleontologists from Russia have described a new dinosaur, the Volgatitan. Seven of its vertebrae, which had remained in the ground for about 130 million years,…
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Burnt Toast and Dinosaur Bones Have a Common Trait
Burnt toast and dinosaur bones have a common trait, according to a new, Yale-led study. They both contain chemicals that, under the right conditions, transform…
Dinosaur Egg Color Had a Single Evolutionary Origin
A new study says the colors found in modern birds’ eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs. According to…
Evidence Shows Dinosaur Extinction Drove Pulses of Fish Diversification
A research team has found new evidence that fish rapidly evolved in two phases following the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction that occurred 66 million years…
Scientists Discover New Species of Giant Dinosaur – Ledumahadi Mafube
A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes…
Researchers Discover Two New Chinese Dinosaurs: Bannykus and Xiyunykus
Digit reduction occurs many times in tetrapod evolution, and the most famous example is the ‘horse series’ of North America. An international research team announced…
Floral Scents Have Provided Olfactory Excitement Since Mid-Cretaceous Period
The compounds behind the perfumes and colognes you enjoy have been eliciting olfactory excitement since dinosaurs walked the Earth amid the first appearance of flowering…
Paleontologists Discover First North American Co-occurrence of Hadrosaur and Therizinosaur Tracks
An international team of paleontologists and other geoscientists has discovered the first North American co-occurrence of hadrosaur and therizinosaur tracks in the lower Cantwell Formation…
Scientists Link Dinosaur Expansion to the Carnian Pluvial Episode
It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang – wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth 66 million years…
Paleontologists Provide New Perspective on Triassic Period, Emergence of Dinosaurs
After a great mass extinction shook the world about 252 million years ago, animal life outside of the ocean began to take hold. The earliest…
‘Bloat-and-Float’ Explains Dinosaur Fossil Mystery
A scientist with the Canadian Museum of Nature has answered a long-standing mystery about why fossils of ankylosaurus—the “armoured tanks” of the dinosaur world—are mainly…
Cretaceous Footprints Found at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million years…
Newly Discovered Dinosaur (Mansourasaurus shahinae) Links Africa and Europe
When it comes to the final days of the dinosaurs, Africa is something of a blank page. Fossils found in Africa from the Late Cretaceous,…
Tiny Jurassic Dinosaur Featured Rainbow Ruff and a Bony Crest
Ancient dinosaurs were adorned in some amazing ways, from the horns of the triceratops to the plates and spikes of the stegosaurus. A newly discovered,…
Exceptionally Preserved Embryos Detail the Life History of a Pterosaur
The pterosaur record is generally poor, and pterosaur eggs are even rarer. Only a handful of isolated occurrences of eggs and embryos have been reported…
Newly Discovered Fossils Reveal Man’s Earliest Ancestors
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have discovered fossils of the oldest mammals related to mankind on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset. The two teeth…
Scientists Identify a New Species of Giant Birdlike Dinosaur
The mystery of the world’s largest dinosaur eggs has been solved, paleontologists have identified the Baby Louie specimen as the embryo of a new species…
Earth’s Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time Arsia Mons Volcanic Activity Ceased
A new study from NASA reveals that the giant Martian shield volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to…