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A team of paleontologists and researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has discovered what may be the largest known dinosaur mating dance arena ever found. For their study, published in the journal Cretaceous Research, the group...
A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, is the most complete named specimen of its kind and is now on...

Footprints show giant carnivorous dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey drank from same Scottish watering hole

Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what is now Scotland, new research suggests. Despite the fact...

Footprints reveal prehistoric Scottish lagoons were stomping grounds for giant Jurassic dinosaurs

Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up to 131 footprints at a newly discovered stomping ground on the Isle of Skye in...

Giant claw unearthed in Mongolia belongs to a new species of two-fingered dinosaur

An international team of paleontologists and Earth scientists has identified fossilized remains as a two-clawed therizinosaur. The fossils were unearthed more than a decade...

Discovery reveals giant flying squirrel once soared over Southern Appalachia

A giant flying squirrel—about the size of today's house cats—once soared through the skies over what is now Southern Appalachia, gliding above rhinos, mastodons...

Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life...

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...

Giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with humans for millennia in Americas, new discoveries suggest

Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge—up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons)—and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a...

How a giant prehistoric elephant skull helped untangle an evolutionary mystery

About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution...

Giant meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago may have aided early life

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet. One such space rock crashed...

Giant prehistoric elephant skull from India belongs to mysterious extinct species

The giant fossil skull of an extinct elephant, discovered in northern India's Kashmir Valley in 2000, sheds light on a poorly known episode in...

Paleontologists describe new examples of giant sea scorpions from the Silurian and Devonian in New South Wales

A team of paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum Research Institute, and the WB Clarke Geoscience Center, in Australia,...

Findings reveal eurypterids evolved giant size independently at least nine times

Sea scorpions, ancient predators that patrolled Earth's marine and freshwater habitats hundreds of millions of years ago, are the focus of a sizable scientific...

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