Mar 19, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. paleontologists have discovered a new raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago. This...

Mar 13, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists from Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas, have discovered the fossils of a new diminutive tyrannosaur that lived in what...

Mar 6, 2014 by News Staff

Two paleontologists from Portugal have described a new species of giant dinosaur that lived in what is today Europe during the Jurassic period, about 150...

Jan 31, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists from the United States and China have described a new large plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now northwestern China during the...

Dec 31, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...

Dec 31, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...

Dec 20, 2013 by News Staff

Canadian paleontologists have described a new genus and species of raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America about 66 million years ago, at the...

Dec 19, 2013 by News Staff

A unique fossil of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus regalis shows for the first time that those dinosaurs’ heads were adorned with a fleshy...

Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

By using CT scanning technology combined with computer simulations, paleontologists have revealed what role keratinous beaks of some dinosaurs played in...

Nov 22, 2013 by News Staff

Paleontologists announced today the discovery of a new predatory dinosaur that lived in what is modern-day Utah around 100 million years ago. An artist’s...

Oct 31, 2013 by News Staff

Using an advanced computer modeling technique, researchers from UK and Argentina recreated walking and running movements of the 130-feet-long Argentinosaurus...

Oct 29, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Palaeontology, two footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in southern Victoria are the oldest avian tracks...

Oct 22, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have reported the discovery of what they say is the youngest, smallest and most complete fossil skeleton yet known for Parasaurolophus, a duck-billed...

Sep 17, 2013 by News Staff

According to Dr David Penney and his colleagues at the University of Manchester, UK, the existence of ancient DNA in amber fossils is highly unlikely. The...

Aug 14, 2013 by News Staff

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows how anomodonts – ancient relatives of modern mammals – recovered in...

Aug 1, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers reporting in the journal Nature has revealed that some non-avian dinosaurs had brains that were as large or larger than that of Archaeopteryx...

Jul 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study by scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, small, herbivorous, dome-headed dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous...

Jul 18, 2013 by News Staff

Dinosaurs were warm-blooded like mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as previously thought, says a biologist from the University of Adelaide, Australia. This...

Jul 17, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Laramidia – a landmass formed when a shallow...

Jun 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A newly discovered bird-like dinosaur named Aurornis xui is about 10 million years older than Archaeopteryx, the feathered dinosaur previously considered...