Tag: dinosaur

How dinosaur extinctions created an environment that contributed to our fruit-eating primate ancestors

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that helped fruits evolve,...

France finds smuggled dinosaur teeth in parcels bound for Italy

French customs officers seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a courier truck transiting through the country from Spain on its way to Italy,...

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire

In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of...

Large bipedal dinosaur footprints discovered: Possible evidence of Mongolian giant Saurolophus

A joint dinosaur survey conducted by Okayama University of Science (OUS) and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, has uncovered one of...

New evidence suggests sulfur’s role in dinosaur extinction was overstated

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a...

Paleontologists discover a new species of North African predatory dinosaur in archived images

SNSB and LMU Paleontologists have identified a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, about 95 million years old....

New dinosaur, Archaeocursor asiaticus, hints at early Gondwana to Laurasia migration

A newly identified dinosaur from southwestern China is revealing what appears to be the earliest-diverging ornithischian dinosaur in Asia. A multi-institution investigation in China...

Apex the Stegosaur, the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold, heads to a museum

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) unveiled today a new addition to its dinosaur collection: an 8.2-meter-long Stegosaurus dubbed “Apex.” With nearly 80%...

Fossilized dung reveals clues to dinosaur success story

In an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilized feces of...

Parasaurolophus pipes: Modeling the dinosaur’s crest to study its sound

Fossils might give a good image of what dinosaurs looked like, but they can also teach scientists what they sounded like. The Parasaurolophus is...

Dinosaur drumsticks, X-ray videos and 3D models shed light on the evolution of bird motion

Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of Yale paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part...

Ankylosaurid dinosaur, unearthed in China in 1986, identified as a new species

A team of archaeologists and paleontologists at the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, working with colleagues from Yunnan University, all in China, has found that the...

Recent articles

spot_img