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Holes in baby dinosaur bones show how football-sized hatchlings grew to 3-ton teens

Despite their public image as torpid, lumbering creatures, many dinosaurs were evidently warm-blooded, highly active animals, capable of prolonged and strenuous aerobic exercise. In new...

Garumbatitan: A new giant dinosaur in the Lower Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula

A new study describes a new sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Iberian Peninsula 122 million years ago. This new species of dinosaur, Garumbatitan...

Study removes human bias from debate over dinosaurs’ demise

To help resolve the scientific debate over whether it was a giant asteroid or volcanic eruptions that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other...

Three new Jurassic-era dinosaur track sites found in Morocco

A small team of paleobiologists, with members from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Birmingham has discovered...

Newly discovered, primitive cousins of T. rex shed light on the end of the age of dinosaurs in Africa

Fossils of primitive cousins of T. rex that had short, bulldog snouts and even shorter arms have been discovered by scientists in Morocco. The...

Ankylosaur: New armoured dinosaur discovered

A new armoured dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was...

Rare and dramatic fossil shows small mammal attacking larger dinosaur

While there is little doubt that many a Mesozoic mammal became a meal for a dinosaur, it may come as a surprise to learn that...

Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles from impact site

The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the planet’s plant and...

Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles from impact site

The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the planet's plant and...

More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

A newly discovered impact crater below the seafloor hints at the possibility that more than one asteroid hit Earth during the time when dinosaurs...

The speed at which spinosaurid dinosaur teeth were replaced accounts for their overabundance in Cretaceous sites

This has been confirmed in the article ‘New contributions to the skull anatomy of spinosaurid theropods: Baryonychinae maxilla from the Early Cretaceous of Igea...

100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints found at restaurant in China

Dinosaur footprints dating back 100 million years have been discovered in southwestern China after a sharp-eyed diner spotted them in a restaurant's outdoor courtyard. Several stone pits...

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