We all know dinosaurs were scary. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, weighing between 11,000 and 15,500 pounds, the equivalent of almost three adult African ...
A father-daughter duo, fossil hunting on a Somerset beach, found the jawbone of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a 25-metre sea ...
Dinosaurs were far stranger than we once imagined, and few species prove that better than Therizinosaurus. With a long neck, bulky body, feathers, and claws over a meter long, this unusual theropod ...
Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal ​found in Spain, ...
Fossil bone analysis shows that mysterious tiny Liaoningosaurus specimens are actually hatchling ankylosaurs, offering rare evidence of early armored dinosaur development. A long-standing puzzle ...
Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast. A stretch of shoreline below ...
A new analysis of a large shinbone unearthed in a remote spot in northwestern New Mexico in the 1970s shows it belongs to a ...
A new analysis of a shinbone from the oldest known giant tyrannosaur in North America suggests that the 'king of dinosaurs,' Tyrannosaurus rex, may have had an unusually large ancestor.
The discovery of the largest known Mesozoic crocodyliform egg clutch, with 47 eggs, has captivated the scientific community. Found in the Upper Cretaceous units of the Bauru Group in Brazil, this ...
The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...
For years, paleontologists have been trying to piece together the story of one of the strangest groups of dinosaurs around – small, bird-like creatures with stubby arms and a single oversized claw.
In Argentina’s Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape including fearsome meat-eater Giganotosaurus, at about eight tons, and immense long-necked plant-eater ...