Dec. 21, 2022 Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards -- and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ...
Dec. 16, 2022 The earliest dinosaurs included carnivorous, omnivorous and herbivorous species, according to a team of ...
Dec. 9, 2022 Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has now been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including Allosaurus and T. ...
Dec. 7, 2022 Dinosaurs dominated the world right up until a deadly asteroid hit the earth, leading to their mass extinction, some 66 million years ago, a landmark study reveals. Fresh insights into ...
Dec. 6, 2022 Scientists have found new evidence for how armored dinosaurs used their iconic tail clubs. The exceptional fossil of the ankylosaur Zuul crurivastator has spikes along its flanks that were broken and ...
Nov. 28, 2022 Whatcheeria, a six-foot-long salamander-like creature that lived 340 million years ago, was the T. rex of its time: the biggest, baddest predator in its habitat. A new study reveals how they grew to ...
Sep. 22, 2022 Researchers have conducted a new analysis of the origins of 'bird-hipped' dinosaurs -- the group which includes iconic species such as Triceratops -- and found that they likely evolved from ...
Aug. 24, 2022 Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, along with the fossilized remains of its ...
Aug. 11, 2022 Large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces, new research has ...
July 25, 2022 A new study refutes a provocative claim made earlier this year that fossils classified as the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex represent three separate species. The rebuttal finds that the earlier proposal ...
July 7, 2022 An international team has discovered a new big, meat-eating dinosaur, dubbed Meraxes gigas, that provides clues about the evolution and anatomy of predatory dinosaurs such as the Carcharodontosaurus ...
May 25, 2022 Paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. In a new paper, scientists are unveiling a new method for ...
Apr. 1, 2022 Extinct for 66 million years, T. rex still inspires speculation about its anatomy, behavior and fierce physique. One conundrum: its peculiarly short forelimbs, which have relatively limited mobility. ...
Mar. 23, 2022 Spinosaurus is the largest predatory dinosaur known -- over two metres longer than the longest Tyrannosaurus rex -- but the way it hunted has been a subject of debate for decades. In a new paper, ...
Mar. 11, 2022 Scientists describe the find of a new softshell turtle from the end of the Cretaceous ...
Mar. 3, 2022 A physics professor has developed an innovative activity that poses the question: Is Usain Bolt faster than a 900-pound ...
Mar. 1, 2022 A new analysis of Tyrannosaurus skeletal remains reveals physical differences in the femur, other bones and dental structures across specimens that could suggest Tyrannosaurus rex specimens need to ...
Dec. 21, 2021 A new bird-like dinosaur that used brute strength to overcome its prey has been found by palaeontologists combing through fossils found on the Isle of Wight, on the South Coast of Great ...
Dec. 17, 2021 A study investigated the enigma of why sauropod fossils are only found at lower latitudes, while fossils of other main dinosaur types seem ubiquitously present, with many located in the polar ...
Dec. 16, 2021 Theropod dinosaurs evolved more robust jaws through time allowing them to consume tougher food, a new study ...
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