A study using a robot dinosaur named Robopteryx to mimic ancient dinosaur behaviors has provided new insights into the evolution of feathered wings. Researchers found…
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Reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis. Credit: Sergei Krasinski, edited Newly discovered Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, potentially T. rex’s closest relative, lived 71-73 million years ago in southern Laramidia,…
Skeleton of the early dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from the Late Triassic. The protracted restructuring of Early Jurassic terrestrial ecosystems coincided with the diversification of dinosaurs.…
A family of Thescelosaurus emerges from safety to forage in the forests of the Hell Creek Formation, 66 million years ago. Credit: Anthony Hutchings A…
Reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis. Credit: Sergei Krasinski, edited Restudy of fossils collected in New Mexico digs up key clues about T. rex’s origins in North…
Recent research suggests that volcanic eruptions, causing global cooling, significantly contributed to the dinosaurs’ extinction, challenging the long-held belief that a meteorite was the sole…
Dartmouth scientists used an innovative computer model to suggest that volcanic activity, rather than an asteroid impact, was the primary cause of the mass extinction…
The discovery of Qianlong shouhu, a new dinosaur species, has led to the revelation that the first dinosaur eggs were likely leathery. This contributes significantly…
The Chicxulub impact, believed to have caused the mass extinction 66 million years ago, may have resulted in a 15°C global cooling, primarily due to…
Field team members Matt Lamanna (top) and Kara Fikse of CMP excavate a large hadrosaur limb bone at the CTQ, March 2023. Credit: Photo by…
New research reveals dinosaur feathers had a protein composition similar to modern birds, hinting at an early origin of bird feather chemistry, possibly 125 million…
A juvenile Edmontosaurus disappears into the enormous, lipped mouth of Tyrannosaurus. Credit: Mark Witton A recent study challenges the depiction of predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus…
A juvenile Edmontosaurus disappears into the enormous, lipped mouth of Tyrannosaurus. Credit: Mark Witton A new study challenges the long-held belief that large theropod dinosaurs,…
A rendering of the sauropod known as Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, which had a 15-meter-long neck. Credit: © Júlia d’Oliveira With their long necks and formidable bodies,…
Alvarezsaurs claws when digging dirt. Credit: Shuyang Zhou for the 3D modeling and functional scenario restoration The claws of dinosaurs had many functions, but a…
Artist’s impression of Ceratosuchops and the orientation of the endocast in the skull. Spinosaurs are a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the…
(A) Completely unhatched egg from the clutch P43. (B) Almost fully intact circular outline of the egg possibly indicating it to be unhatched and no…
A rendering of Microraptor zhaoianus. Credit: Ralph Attanasia III New research on the preserved gut contents of Microraptor reveals a more varied diet than previously…
This Lythronax lived in North America in the late Cretaceous period. These tyrannosaurids are estimated to have weighed up to 2.5 tons. Credit: 2022 D.E.…
Inhabitants of the “Island of the Dwarf Dinosaurs” in present-day Transylvania in the Cretaceous: Transylvanosaurus (front right), as well as turtles, crocodiles, giant pterosaurs, and…