Oct 25, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dozens of fossils from a bird-like theropod dinosaur known as Avimimus have been unearthed in a single bonebed in Mongolia, providing strong evidence that...

Oct 24, 2016 by News Staff

A new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous has been discovered in western Queensland, Australia. Savannasaurus elliottorum. Image...

Oct 14, 2016 by News Staff

An enigmatic wingless parasitic wasp has been found preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, a new study says. Aptenoperissus burmanicus lived at the...

Sep 28, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists, led by Carleton University researcher Bradley McFeeters, has added another ornithomimid dinosaur to the prehistoric...

Sep 16, 2016 by News Staff

A University of Bristol-led international team of paleontologists has produced an accurate reconstruction of an exceptionally well-preserved specimen of...

Aug 30, 2016 by News Staff

Paleontologists say they’ve discovered the fossilized remains of a small-bodied pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile, which lived roughly 77 million...

Jul 22, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of theropod dinosaur has been discovered by a duo of paleontologists – Prof. Philip Currie from the University of Alberta in Canada and...

Jul 14, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of paleontologists has found fossil fragments from a remarkable new species of theropod dinosaur that walked our planet around 94 million years...

Jul 5, 2016 by News Staff

The first-ever record of ameloblastoma — a rare, non-cancerous tumor that develops most often in the jaw near the molars – found in a fossil...

Jun 7, 2016 by News Staff

Therian mammals, the ancestors of most modern mammals, began their massive diversification 10-20 million years before the extinction of dinosaurs, according...

Jun 2, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a paper published last week in the journal Current Biology, scientists described a new species of trap-jaw ant found in 99 million-year-old pieces of...

May 26, 2016 by News Staff

The end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, also known as the K/T extinction — the event that wiped out the dinosaurs as well as nearly 50% of all...

May 19, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A new species of ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered a decade ago in the Judith River Formation in Montana. An artist’s...

Apr 27, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A remarkable new species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur being named Sarmientosaurus musacchioi has been discovered by a team of paleontologists led...

Apr 25, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by University of Leeds scientist Dr. Alexander Dunhill has used the so-called ‘Network Theory’ to visually depict the...

Apr 22, 2016 by News Staff

Ecological changes following the dinosaur-ravaging Chicxulub impact 65 million years ago may have been more detrimental to meat-eating bird-like dinosaurs,...

Apr 22, 2016 by News Staff

A rare specimen of the titanosaur Rapetosaurus krausei from the Cretaceous of Madagascar sheds light on early life in the smallest stage of one of the...

Mar 30, 2016 by News Staff

A large team of paleontologists led by University of Liverpool scientist Dr. Karl Bates has developed computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs...

Mar 19, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

A new species of dromaeosaurid (raptor) dinosaur — Boreonykus certekorum — that thrived in the cold has been discovered in a remote part of...

Mar 15, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new dinosaur cousin of T. rex – named Timurlengia euotica — has been found in the Kyzylkum Desert, northern Uzbekistan. A reconstruction of Timurlengia...