Spinosaurus may be swimmer and have giant tail, says new study
Back in the Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated the land and sky.
They also, a new paper argues, terrorized the...
Nuclear bomb tests help determine age of largest fish on Earth
Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s have helped scientists accurately estimate the age of whale sharks, the biggest...
Scientists discover four new pterosaurs in matter of weeks
You wait ages for a pterosaur and then four come along at once.
Hot on the heels of a recent paper discovering three new species...
This feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors
A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to...
Scientists discover new species of flying pterosaurs
A community of flying reptiles that inhabited the Sahara 100 million years ago has been discovered by a University of Portsmouth palaeontologist and an...
Darkness, not cold, likely responsible for dinosaur-killing extinction
Roughly 66 million years ago an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula.
New research shows darkness, not cold, likely drove a mass extinction after...
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, says new study
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, according to a new technique that analyzes the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells.
“Dinosaurs sit at an evolutionary point between birds, which are...
Were dinosaurs warm blooded? Their eggshells say yes
A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
According to a new technique...
Scientists discover new species of Allosaurus in Utah
A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in early 1990s...
Scientists discover walking sharks in the tropics
Four new species of tropical sharks that use their fins to walk are causing a stir in waters off northern Australia and New Guinea.
While...