‘Demon ducks of doom’ laid huge prehistoric eggs
A unique duck-like line of megafauna known as the “demon ducks of doom” were the rightful mothers of giant prehistoric eggs in Australia, according...
Scientists find new way to check dinosaurs’ temperature
A Yale-led research team has turned up the heat on dinosaur metabolism — establishing that the earliest dinosaurs and pterosaurs had exceptionally high metabolic...
Scientists find ancient bird behind giant eggs ate by Australians around 50,000 years ago
Scientists settle debate surrounding 'Thunder bird' species, and whether its eggs were exploited by early Australian people around 50,000 years ago.
Proteins extracted from fragments...
What caused this prehistoric shark’s massive toothache
Did the world’s largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch?
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the...
Wyoming had tropically hot temperatures 95 million years ago, shows study
A new Michigan study found the shallow sea that covered much of western North America 95 million years ago was as warm as today’s...
Scientists find new ichthyosaur, one of the largest animals ever, in the Alps
The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago.
They had an elongated body and a...
Flying relatives of dinosaurs could control their feather colors, shows study
Palaeontologists have discovered remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs, the flying relatives of dinosaurs, were able to control the colour of their feathers using melanin...
Injured dinosaur in Spain left some unusual footprints behind
A set of dinosaur footprints in Spain has unusual features because the dinosaur that made the tracks had an injured foot.
The study was published...
Why are the arms of Tyrannosaurus rex so ridiculously short
Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called The Age of Dinosaurs, one question asked frequently by undergraduates stuck with...
This giant carnivorous dinosaur could hunt underwater
Spinosaurus is the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered on Earth. It’s even larger than T. rex.
A new study from University of Oxford and others...