There are two main reasons crocodiles survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. First, crocodiles can live for a very long time without food. Second,…
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Effigia Life Reconstruction. Credit: Mark Witton A TriassicThe Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the…
An adult and two juvenile individuals of the dinosaur Tethyshadros insularis showing the different appearances exhibited by immature and mature specimens in the ancient environment…
The “Tristan Otto” Tyrannosaurus rex skull that was examined by researchers. Credit: RSNA and Charlie Hamm, M.D. Researchers in Germany identified bone disease in the…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez Fossilized remains of sauropodomorphs – large, long-necked herbivores that lived during the MesozoicThe Mesozoic Era…
Reconstruction of the head of Brighstoneus simmondsi. Credit: John Sibbick Natural History Museum and University of PortsmouthEstablished in 1992, the University of Portsmouth is a…
Living reconstruction of Issi saaneq, a newly discovered dinosaur that lived on Greenland 214 million years ago. Credit: Victor Beccari The two-legged dinosaur Issi saaneq…
Detail images of fossils from the Ordovician Period outcrop on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. Credit: André Desrochers, University of Ottawa A team of researchers publish…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez New research on a vast fossil site in Patagonia shows that some of the earliest…
Artistic reconstruction of a Mussaurus patagonicus nest. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the…
Life reconstruction of herbivorous dinosaurs based on 220-million-year-old fossil footprints from Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Credit: Anthony Romilio “Raptor-like” dinosaur discovered in an Australian mine, actually…
A chimpanzee in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Credit: Daniel J. Field When an asteroid struck 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs not related…
Pendraig milnerae was a small species of carnivorous dinosaur, living in what is now southern Wales. Credit: © James Robbins The oldest-known meat-eating dinosaur discovered…
Artist’s impressions of the Spinosaurids. Ceratosuchops inferodios in the foreground, Riparovenator milnerae in the background. Credit: Anthony Hutchings A new study led by paleontologists at…
A team of University of Washington students, volunteers, and staff excavate the Flyby Trike Triceratops in northeastern Montana. Credit: Rachel Ormiston/Burke Museum/University of Washington A…
The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago, a new study reveals. The Late TriassicThe…
Artist’s reconstruction of Carnotaurus based on the scaly skin of described in the present study. Credit: Illustration by Jake Baardse Scientists Reveal the Fossilized Skin…
A new dinosaur from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, was described from a single maxilla fossil. The University of Tsukuba-led research team…
Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome predator that once roamed what is now western North America, appears to have had an East Coast cousin. A new study…
New research from Portland State University sheds light on the diets of the Late JurassicThe Jurassic (from the Jura Mountains) is a geologic period and…