Tag Archive for 'Ornithomimidae'

Life reconstruction of Mexidracon longimanus. Image credit: Ddinodan / CC BY 4.0.

Long-Handed Ostrich-Like Dinosaur Unearthed in Mexico

Jan 31, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A bizarre new genus and species of ornithomimid dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized remains found in 2014 in Coahuila, Mexico. Life reconstruction...

Hypothetical reconstruction of the Tyrants Aisle tracksite during track formation, depicting a small herd of Edmontosaurus regalis as they produce tracks in a riverine setting; a lone tyrannosaurid dinosaur watches the herd, while a pair of troodontids scuffle nearby. Image credit: José Vitor Silva.

72.5-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Canada

Feb 16, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists from Australia, Canada and Italy has documented more than 100 footprints of hadrosaurid and tyrannosaurid dinosaurs...

Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis. Image credit: Masato Hattori.

New Ostrich-Like Dinosaur Discovered in Mongolia: Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis

Sep 4, 2017 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have found fossil fragments from a new species of ornithomimosaur (ostrich-mimic dinosaur) that walked the Earth between 84 and 72 million...

An artistic life reconstruction of Rativates evadens in the paleoenvironment of the Late Cretaceous of Alberta. Image credit: Andrey-Atuchin.

Rativates evadens: New Ostrich-Mimic Dinosaur Species Identified

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...