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...

Aug 23, 2021 by News Staff

Paleontologists have analyzed the morphology of the neurovascular canal in the well-preserved jaw of Tyrannosaurus rex using computed tomography techniques....

Aug 16, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified two new species of giant herbivorous dinosaurs from fossils found in the Turpan-Hami Basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China. Life...

Aug 10, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Brazil have unveiled a new species of unenlagiine dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period. An artist’s...

Aug 5, 2021 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists has digitally reconstructed the facial skeleton and brain endocast of Ichthyornis dispar, a toothed stem bird that lived in North...

Jul 21, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Cretaceous-period hadrosaurid dinosaur Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis had a foot tumor and two painful fractures in the vertebrae of its tail, according...

Jul 12, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of styracosternan hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified from a fossilized jawbone found in the Spanish province of Castellón. An...

Jun 30, 2021 by News Staff

The most famous mass extinction was the disappearance of non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, after ruling the...

Jun 30, 2021 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Florida State University has uncovered the first convincing evidence that several...

Jun 28, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new enantiornithine bird with a well-preserved skull from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China. The Early Cretaceous...

Jun 21, 2021 by News Staff

The 110-million-year-old footprints discovered in Kent, southern England, were left by three types of dinosaurs, including theropod, ornithopod, and ankylosaur...

Jun 15, 2021 by News Staff

In 2020, paleontologists described an ancient species, Oculudentavis khaungraae, based on a tiny skull trapped in a piece of Cretaceous-period amber from...

Jun 11, 2021 by News Staff

Paleoclimatologists have precisely reconstructed monthly sea surface temperatures at around 50 °N latitude from fossil shells of bivalve mollusks that...

Jun 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur, named Australotitan cooperensis, is the largest species of dinosaur ever found in Australia. Life...

Jun 2, 2021 by News Staff

In a paper published in the journal PeerJ, paleontologists present bite force estimates for a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex based on mechanical tests designed...

May 31, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new species of lambeosaurine hadrosaur from fossils found in northern Mexico. Life reconstruction of Tlatolophus galorum....

May 12, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of horned (ceratopsid) dinosaur has been identified from an incomplete skeleton found in New Mexico, the United States. Life reconstruction...

May 7, 2021 by News Staff

Shuvuuia deserti, a species of alvarezsauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous epoch in what is now Mongolia, had extreme low-light vision...

Apr 28, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Yamatosaurus izanagii roamed our planet 71.8 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous epoch. This artist’s illustration of Yamatosaurus izanagii...

Apr 26, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of lithostrotian titanosaur has been identified from a partial skeleton found in northern Chile. Life reconstruction of Arackar...