The meat-eating dinosaurs often known as theropods that roamed the traditional Earth ranged in measurement from the bus-sized T. rex to the smaller, dog-sized Velociraptor. Scientists puzzling over how such wildly completely different dinosaur sizes advanced not too long ago discovered -- to their shock -- that smaller and bigger ...

A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo discovered inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new mild on the hyperlink between the habits of recent birds and dinosaurs, in keeping with a brand new examine.

Theropod dinosaurs developed extra strong jaws by way of time permitting them to eat more durable meals, a brand new examine reveals.

Fossil footprints present in an Australian coal mine round 50 years in the past have lengthy been considered that of a big 'raptor-like' predatory dinosaur, however scientists have the truth is found they had been as an alternative left by a timid long-necked herbivore.

Researchers describe the primary crab from the Cretaceous dinosaur period preserved in amber. The examine used micro CT to look at and describe Cretapsara athanata, the oldest modern-looking crab (roughly 100 million years outdated) and probably the most full fossil crab ever found.

With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi lived 82 million years in the past, predating its relative, Triceratops.

The primary new cranium found in almost a century from a uncommon species of the enduring, tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus was introduced in the present day. The beautiful preservation of the cranium, particularly the weird tube-shaped nasal passage, lastly revealed the construction of the crest after a long time of disagreement. ...

From motion pictures to museum displays, the dinosaur Dilophosaurus isn't any stranger to popular culture. Many most likely keep in mind it greatest from the film 'Jurassic Park,' the place it is depicted as a venom-spitting beast with a rattling frill round its neck and two paddle-like crests on its ...

Greater than 110 million years in the past, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram, armour-plated dinosaur ate its final meal, died, and was washed out to sea in what's now northern Alberta. This historic beast then sank onto its thorny again, churning up mud within the seabed that entombed it -- till its ...

Considerable dinosaur footprints in Alaska reveal that high-latitude hadrosaurs most popular tidally influenced habitats.