Scientists found a baby dinosaur hidden in rock and it is surprisingly cute
In South Korea, a playful green cartoon dinosaur named Dooly, known for the two small tufts of hair on his head, has been a favorite for generations. So when scientists…
This 2-pound dinosaur is rewriting what scientists know about evolution
Researchers have identified a 90 million year old fossil that helps solve a long standing mystery about a strange group of prehistoric animals. The discovery was led by University of…
Dinosaur mummy found with hooves and a hidden crest
In a new paper in Science, researchers from the University of Chicago describe how, about 66 million years ago, the bodies of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens were transformed into…
Fossils reveal a massive shark that ruled Australia in dinosaur times
Around 115 million years ago, the waters north of Australia supported a massive shark that can be viewed as an early relative of the creatures made famous by “Jaws.” Newly…
Hidden for 125 years, a Welsh fossil turns out to be a dinosaur
Paleontologists at the University of Bristol have officially identified a new species of dinosaur from Triassic fossil beds in South Wales, near Penarth – more than 125 years after the…
Bizarre ankylosaur with giant neck spikes redefines dinosaur evolution
The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realized… Research published in Nature on August 27 reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million…
What a dinosaur ate 100 million years ago—Preserved in a fossilized time capsule
Plant fossils found in the abdomen of a sauropod support the long-standing hypothesis that these dinosaurs were herbivores, finds a study published on June 9 in the Cell Press journal…
Asteroid That Triggered Dinosaur Extinction Was a Carbon-Rich C-Type Space Rock, Study Finds
Recent research has provided new insights into the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing a mass extinction event that led to the end of the dinosaurs. Scientists…
Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a century
The most complete dinosaur discovered in this country in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a ‘dinner plate’, has been described in a new…