Giant Portuguese carnivorous dinosaur discovered
A new dinosaur species discovered in Portugal dominated the food chain 150 million years ago — the Tyrannosaurus Rex of its time, researchers said. The new species is the largest land predator...
View ArticleHuge Tooth Proves Jurassic Seas Were Crazy Dangerous
A fossilized tooth dredged from the bottom of the English Channel near Dorset, England, belonged to a formidable Jurassic marine predator and is the largest known tooth of its kind found in the U.K.,...
View Article17-Million-Year-Old Whale Skull Helps Place Humanity’s First Steps
A 17-million-year-old beaked whale fossil is helping researchers solve a puzzle about the likely birthplace of humanity in East Africa, a new study finds. The whale (Ziphiidae) lived when the East...
View ArticleThe “Butcher” croc that ruled the world before the dinosaurs
Scientists in the US have discovered a terrifying land-living crocodile, which lived in what is now North Carolina 230 million years ago. The crocodile, called Carnufex carolinensis, which literally...
View ArticleDinosaur ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Found Buried Together
A dinosaur couple that appears to have died together after wooing each other has been identified in remains unearthed at the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The dino couple, named Romeo and Juliet since they...
View ArticleDreadnoughtus, the gigantic sauropod dinosaur
Dreadnoughtus is a genus of giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous, discovered in the (Campanian-Maastrichtian; 84–66 Ma) Cerro Fortaleza Formation of Santa Cruz province,...
View ArticleYi Qi… a bird, or a bat?
Yi is a genus of scansoriopterygid (meaning “climbing wings”) dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of China. Scansoriopterygids are small maniraptoran theropods, notable for their elongate third fingers...
View ArticlePregnant T-Rex found that lived 68 million years ago
Scientists found a pregnant T-Rex (Tyrannosaurus rex), and this can help with the study of the evolution of egg-laying as well as on gender differences in the dinosaur. The remains could also contain...
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