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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2024
From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing ...
Learn how a species with shockingly long strides might have used its arms for a unique form of flight-like movement.
Fossilized droppings from the Triassic and Jurassic are revealing the diets of some dinosaurs—including a surprising taste ...
“The skeletal fossils, footprints and bromalites from sites in Poland provide a series of discrete temporal snapshots that demonstrate a transition from a world with few dinosaurs to one in ...
The huge Stegosaurus fossil Apex, bought at auction for $44.6 million, has debuted on loan at the American Museum of Natural ...
Matching Dinosaur Footprints Found on Opposite Sides of the ... 2024 — New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and ...
Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden examined fossilized dinosaur feces to uncover fascinating aspects about their ...
Scans of fossilized feces have revealed what the early members of this iconic species ate to help them take over the world.
When paleontologist Martin Qvarnström began peering inside 230-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur dung using an advanced X-ray ... The celebrities of the paleontological world tend to have giant ...
Scientists studied trace fossils called bromalites to reconstruct critical food webs in late Triassic, early Jurassic.