The attached image shows Wightia declivirostris flying over an oxbow lake in the valley of the ancient Wessex River that flowed from Devon to the…
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Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research led by Queen Mary University of London has shown that…
Published in PLOS ONE today, a study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and Hokkaido University in…
Artistic restoration of Deinonychus antirrhopus. Credit: Fred Wierum Turns out, you really can’t believe everything you see in the movies. A new University of Wisconsin…
Two Spinosaurus hunt Onchopristis, a prehistoric sawfish, in the waters of the Kem Kem river system in what is now Morocco. Credit: Jason Treat, NG…
Predators abound on land, in the air and in water some 95 million years on the shores of northern Africa — as shown by the…
Visualizations of brain endocasts (blue) from the skulls of a dinosaur and a modern bird. Credit: Image courtesy of WitmerLab at Ohio University International team…
Three new species of toothed pterosaurs have been discovered. Credit: Nizar Ibrahim, University of Detroit Mercy A community of flying reptiles that inhabited the Sahara…
(Click for full view.) A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor…
A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to a…
Artist’s impression of dinosaurs on prehistoric mudflat. Credit: Jon Hoad They are among the most recognizable dinosaurs … now paleontologists have discovered that stegosaurs left…
Photograph of the larger hadrosaur vertebra in lateral view (left) and caudal view (right). The space that contained the overgrowth opens to the caudal surface…
Wulong bohaiensis. The skeleton described in the new paper is remarkably complete. The name means “Dancing Dragon” in Chinese and was named in part to…
Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers.…
Because it took T. rex up to twenty years to reach adult size, the tyrant king probably underwent drastic changes as it matured. A study…
A fossil specimen of the uniquely ornamented extinct oyster Agerostrea ungulata, retrieved from the Fezzan region of Libya and found across portions of Africa, Asia,…
Illustration of an allosaurus. Credit: Óscar Sanisidro © Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Dinosaur footprints found in several European countries, very similar to others…
Cover art by Sae Bom Ra, a 2019 graduate of Adelphi University. Credit: Sae Bom Ra New study shows a carnivorous dinosaur species regrew all…
Hannah’s skull. Credit: Scott Persons. University of Alberta paleontologists uncover spiky skull—and overturn long-standing assumptions in identifying horned dinosaurs. A team of researchers at the…
A big problem with dinosaurs is that there seems to be too many meat-eaters. From studies of modern animals, there is a feeding pyramid, with…