Massive hell heron dinosaur unearthed
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The juvenile dinosaur is so well preserved that its individual cells can still be identified under a microscope.
Palaeontologists have discovered a colossal new species of dinosaur in a remote part of the Sahara. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis – meaning ‘astonishing’ Spinosaurus in Latin – the giant lived in what is now Niger more than 95 million years ago, far from the coastal regions where similar fish-hunting dinosaurs are usually found.
The fossil skull of Kostensuchus atrox, a 70-million-year-old relative to modern-day crocodiles. It is thought to have been an apex predator in what is now southern Patagonia during the Cretaceous period. Photograph By José Brusco Near the dusk of the ...
The mysteries of the past are still being unearthed, with a group of Argentinian researchers having found a new ancient species of dinosaur. That’s not all, as the dinosaur’s jaw also had the remains of its last meal: a crocodile. The partial skeleton ...
Over the years, scientists have found examples of cancerous tumors within the fossilized bones of ancient dinosaurs. A new study analyzes the fossil of the duck-billed hadrosaurid Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus and found proteins that help pinpoint ...
About 150 million years ago, the land that is now the western United States was alive with dinosaurs. New research shows that the smallest members of the biggest dinosaurs played a huge role in
The things that fascinate us most tend to be wonders we have never seen up close. It's our natural response to be curious, to question what it must be like to fly by Jupiter and its moons or live among dinosaurs. Other WRAL Top Stories Dinosaur bones have ...
Researchers have named it Joaquinraptor casali, a tribute to the son of a researcher Getty Researchers digging in Argentina have uncovered a new type of ancient dinosaur that once roamed the Earth millions of years ago. Their discovery, detailed in an ...
Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most interesting of prehistoric survivors are the species of fish that have lineages that date back to the prehistoric ages.