Dinosaurs News
May 21, 2025
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May 15, 2025 A dinosaur's 40-second journey more than 120 million years ago has been brought back to life by a research team using advanced digital modelling ...
May 14, 2025 Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs. ...
May 9, 2025 The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been dominated by the dinosaurs, but the rivers and streams held something more familiar. Alaska's fresh waters 73 million years ago were teeming with the ancient relatives of today's ...
May 6, 2025 Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new ...
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May 6, 2025 A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, ...
May 1, 2025 A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as ...
Apr. 14, 2025 Footprints of armored dinosaurs with tail clubs have been identified, following discoveries made in the Canadian Rockies. The 100-million-year-old fossilized footprints were found at sites at both ...
Apr. 2, 2025 Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in ...
Apr. 8, 2025 The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ...
Apr. 1, 2025 More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has ...
Mar. 20, 2025 Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic ...
Mar. 13, 2025 A researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square meter ever documented in ...
Feb. 27, 2025 Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and ...
Jan. 23, 2025 The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago, according to a new ...
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Jan. 23, 2025 The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new ...
Jan. 7, 2025 A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were recently uncovered is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of years ...
Dec. 18, 2024 While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, ...
Dec. 5, 2024 Research has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaur stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East Sussex 135 million years ...
Nov. 29, 2024 Researchers have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilized feces of dinosaurs. These analyses of hundreds of samples provide clues about the role dinosaurs ...
Nov. 21, 2024 Scientists have presented results on the acoustic characteristics of a physical model of the Parasaurolophus' crest. They created a physical setup made of tubes to represent a mathematical model ...
Nov. 20, 2024 Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say, is where fibular reduction ...
Nov. 13, 2024 A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate ...
Nov. 4, 2024 Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says ...
Oct. 23, 2024 The new mammal lived in Colorado 70 to 75 million years ago -- a time when a vast inland sea covered large portions of the state, and animals like sharks, turtles and giant crocodiles ...
Sep. 4, 2024 Chemists offer a new explanation for how collagen in dinosaur bones may have survived millions of years: An atomic-level interaction prevents its bonds from being broken down by ...
Aug. 26, 2024 An international team of paleontologists has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different ...
July 24, 2024 Scientists have discovered that the serrated edges of Komodo dragons' teeth are tipped with iron. The study gives new insight into how Komodo dragons keep their teeth razor-sharp and may provide ...
July 24, 2024 A study looks at the maximum possible sizes of dinosaurs, using the carnivore, Tyrannosaurus rex, as an example. Using computer modelling, experts produced estimates that T. Rex might have been 70% ...
July 17, 2024 New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American ...
July 10, 2024 The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age ...
July 10, 2024 The most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a 'dinner plate', has been described in a new ...
July 9, 2024 A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The new species contributes to a fuller understanding of life ...
July 1, 2024 Scientists discovered the oldest fossil grapes in the Western Hemisphere, which help show how after the death of the dinosaurs, grapes spread across the ...
June 20, 2024 For centuries, scientists thought they knew where the griffin legend came from. A new study takes a closer look at the data and folklore's influence on ...
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- Komodo Dragons Have Iron-Coated Teeth to Rip Apart Their Prey
- Scientists Assess How Large Dinosaurs Could Really Get
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- A New Species of Extinct Crocodile Relative Rewrites Life on the Triassic Coastline
- Research Reveals the Most Complete Dinosaur Discovered in the UK in a Century
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- New Study Finds Dinosaur Fossils Did Not Inspire the Mythological Griffin
- Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-Like Horns
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- Origins of 'Welsh Dragons' Finally Exposed by Experts
- Musankwa Sanyatiensis, a New Dinosaur from Zimbabwe
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- Alaska Dinosaur Tracks Reveal a Lush, Wet Environment
- Higher Carnivorous Dinosaur Biodiversity of Famous Kem Kem Beds, Morocco
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- Fossils of Giant Sea Lizard With Dagger-Like Teeth Show How Our Oceans Have Fundamentally Changed Since the Dinosaur Era
- Fossil Named 'Attenborough's Strange Bird' Was the First in Its Kind Without Teeth
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- Newly Discovered Jurassic Fossils in Texas
- Humans' Ancestors Survived the Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs
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- Scientists Discover What Was on the Menu of the First Dinosaurs
- Climate Change Played Key Role in Dinosaur Success Story
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- Fossil Overturns More Than a Century of Knowledge About the Origin of Modern Birds
- Oldest Pterodactylus Fossil Found in Germany