Surprising Dinosaur Discovery: Ankylosaur Was Sluggish and Deaf
Fossil braincase provides new surprising insights. German and Austrian scientists took a closer look at the braincase of a dinosaur from Austria. The group examined…
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Fossil braincase provides new surprising insights. German and Austrian scientists took a closer look at the braincase of a dinosaur from Austria. The group examined…
New Australian fossil site offers details of verdant landscape 15 million years ago. A team of Australian and international scientists led by Australian Museum (AM)…
Over the last 100 years, many fossilized dinosaur eggs and nests have been found, but finding one with a well-preserved embryo inside is exceedingly rare….
A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs,…
The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede – as big as a car – has been found on a beach in the north of England….
Giant, long-necked sauropods, thought to include the largest land animals ever to have existed, preferred to live in warmer, more tropical regions on Earth, suggesting…
Groundbreaking study confirms time of year when an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth. A groundbreaking study led by researchers…
70 million-year-old fossils reveal unique walking behavior of this huge, heron-like pterosaur. Look around any wetland today and you’re likely to see 3-foot-tall egrets or…
A Triassic herbivore, known for its supposed similarities to a modern-day ostrich, has been revealed to have an entirely different approach to feeding than previously…
A dinosaur trove in Italy rewrites the history, geography, and evolution of the ancient Mediterranean area. Italy is not exactly renowned for dinosaurs. In comparison…
A new 130-million-year-old swordfish-shaped marine reptile fossil sheds light on the evolution of hypercarnivory of these last-surviving ichthyosaurs. A team of international researchers from Canada,…
Oregon State University research has uncovered the first fossil evidence of a rare botanical condition known as precocious germination in which seeds sprout before leaving…
Fossilized remains of sauropodomorphs – large, long-necked herbivores that lived during the Mesozoic Era – may provide the earliest evidence of herd living in dinosaurs,…
Kyoto University examines the lack of size diversity in rabbits and hares. Next to cat videos, watching small and cuddly rabbits is probably one of…
Fossils trapped in amber provide a unique snapshot of the anatomy, biology, and ecology of extinct organisms. The most common fossils found in amber, which…
“Raptor-like” dinosaur discovered in an Australian mine, actually uncovered as a timid vegetarian. 50-year-old findings of the Triassic period’s “largest meat-eating dinosaur” reanalyzed as the…
Discovery provides new insights into the evolution of crabs and when they spread around the world Looking at the ancient piece of amber, Javier Luque’s…
Six million-year-old fossilized footprints on the island show the human foot had begun to develop. The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the…