Aug 5, 2025 by News Staff

While tyrannosaurid dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex  had skulls that were optimized for high bite forces, other gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs such...

Nov 14, 2023 by News Staff

Paleontologists from Queen Mary University of London and elsewhere have performed an extensive survey of the literature and fossil collections cataloging...

Aug 21, 2023 by News Staff

Saurosuchus galilei, a large loricatan pseudosuchian archosaur that lived in South America 230 million years ago (Late Triassic epoch), was thought to...

Sep 15, 2022 by News Staff

Opisthiamimus gregori is an extinct, small-bodied relative of the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), the only living member of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia. An...

Aug 25, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Carnosaurs may have been terrestrial analogues of vultures, and not predators, according to a new study published in the journal Ecological Modelling. An...

May 29, 2020 by News Staff

An analysis of the fossilized vertebrate remains from the Jurassic Mygatt-Moore Quarry in Colorado has revealed the bones of a theropod dinosaur called...

Jan 27, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of carnivorous theropod dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized remains discovered in the 1990s in northeastern Utah and Wyoming, the...

Nov 29, 2019 by News Staff

Majungasaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 70 million years ago (Cretaceous period) in what is now Madagascar, grew new teeth roughly...

Nov 4, 2015 by News Staff

Using digital models and computer analyses, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol, UK, has studied the muscle strain during jaw opening of three...

May 7, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Phil Manning of the University of Manchester have used a highly sensitive synchrotron-imaging technique to reveal ancient injuries...