Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ angle.
The simulations show that...
Tyrannosaurus rex was terrifyingly good at walking, super-efficient at lower speeds
While smaller dinosaurs needed speed, huge predators like Tyrannosaurus rex were optimized for energy-efficient walking, according to a study published in PLOS ONE.
Theropod dinosaurs...
Can we really tell male and female dinosaurs apart?
Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs.
Now, research led by Queen Mary University of London has shown that...
Scientists discover 66-million-year-old badger-like animal in Madagascar
In evolutionary terms, islands are the stuff of weirdness.
It is on islands where animals evolve in isolation, often for millions of years, with different...
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...