• The discovery of the 150-million-year-old fossil highlights the diversity of known Archaeopteryx specimens, which may have belonged to several species, like "a Jurassic analog of Darwin's finches ," said study leader and paleontologist Oliver Rauhut, of the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich. (livescience.com)
  • Scientists have long thought these holes were the remnants of wounds made by other horned dinosaurs, said Spencer Lucas, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, who was not involved in the study. (livescience.com)
  • Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas exhibit showcases the world of modern paleontology, introducing a dynamic vision of dinosaurs and the scientists who study them. (echovermont.org)
  • The well-preserved remains, identified by a team of scientists from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology (MUVP) initiative, belong to a titanosaurian sauropod--a type of long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous, the final epoch in a period spanning 79 million years when dinosaurs were still the dominant land animals. (natureasia.com)
  • Sallam and his peers say that the fossils-back foot, neck and back vertebrae, cranium and mandible among other bones-represent "the most complete remains" belonging to a dinosaur of this era in all of the African continent, and arguably, a turning a point in Egyptian paleontology. (natureasia.com)
  • A disciplined artist, Troll works out of his waterfront studio, which is filled with fish specimens, fossils, and paleontology texts, "I like to let the art take its time. (cdc.gov)
  • The fossils which were found in Upper Cretaceous formations in the region date back 66 million years. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Morrison-Golden Fossil Areas NNL has world-class trackways and fossils from the late Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. (nps.gov)
  • Over many years, it has become accepted among palaeontologists that birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropods from the Early Cretaceous period of Earth's history, around 120-130 million years ago. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Jan. 12, 2023 A study is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Then, in the 1970s and 1980s, Jack Horner and his colleagues pioneered a new view in their studies of Maiasaura, a plant-eating dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (77 million years ago) of Montana. (deccanherald.com)
  • Two tiny wings locked in amber 99 million years ago suggest that in the middle of the Cretaceous period - when dinosaurs still walked the planet - bird feathers already looked a lot like they do today. (nature.com)
  • They were the first Cretaceous sauropod bones - and sauropods were long necked, sort of elephant-sized dinosaurs that we all know and love - they were the first Cretaceous dinosaur bones found in Australia. (abc.net.au)
  • Palaeontologists excavating a fossil site in Argentina have unearthed what might be a herd of hadrosaurs, along with the first Cretaceous mammal fossil from the region known as the Golfo San Jorge Basin. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Work continues at the promising fossil site located at the Cañadón Tomás Quarry, in Patagonia, southern Argentina, which has already revealed bones belonging to hadrosaurs (a large, duck-billed dinosaur) and two other dinosaur species, a Cretaceous snake and the upper jaw and teeth of a mammal from the same period, known as a reigitheriid. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Mammal fossils from the end of the Cretaceous can help researchers better understand the period leading up to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, which was followed by an expansion of mammals. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Hadrosaur fossils from the Cretaceous are also rare in the Southern Hemisphere. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Psittacosaurus was a bipedal dinosaur that lived during the beginning of the Cretaceous period. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The pride of the collection is a 20-meter-long, five-meter-high skeleton of sauropod believed to have existed in the late Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs began to become extinct. (people.cn)
  • The fight scene, preserved in a fossil discovered in China, suggests that small mammals preyed on the dinosaurs that ruled Earth during the Cretaceous period more than previously thought, scientists said on Tuesday. (phys.org)
  • But the new fossil is the first piece of evidence that "there were at least some feisty mammals around during the Cretaceous. (phys.org)
  • Most information on dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous era comes from what is now the United States, particularly the Hell Creek Formation , which provides a picture of relatively rich dinosaur diversity during the final million years of that period. (kesq.com)
  • Dinosaur diversity was already on the wane at the end of the Cretaceous, suggested the study, published September 19 in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . (kesq.com)
  • Our results support a long-term decline in global dinosaur biodiversity prior to 66 million years ago," the study said, "which likely set the stage for the end-Cretaceous nonavian dinosaur mass extinction. (kesq.com)
  • Dinosaurs were probably fine and diverse and if it wasn't for the end Cretaceous asteroid (they) might as well be dominating today as far as we know. (kesq.com)
  • Scientists unearth near-complete remains of a school-bus-sized dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous era, around 94 to 66 million years ago. (natureasia.com)
  • Fossils found in Africa from the Upper Cretaceous are few and far between, explains Sallam, meaning that "the course of dinosaur evolution in Africa has largely remained a mystery. (natureasia.com)
  • It is the most complete dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Africa," says Stephen Brusatte, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh. (natureasia.com)
  • New Egyptian sauropod reveals Late Cretaceous dinosaur dispersal between Europe and Africa. (natureasia.com)
  • The fossil has been recognized as being related to a new species of carnivorous dinosaur Eubrontes in the Cretaceous. (kyodonews.net)
  • I have led studies on how dinosaurs rose to dominance and later went extinct, the origin of birds from theropod dinosaurs, and the diversification of placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. (lu.se)
  • The gravelly slopes show a clear line between the brown layer from the period known as the Cretaceous (when the dinosaurs lived) and the younger, yellower layer above. (lu.se)
  • Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries and its accompanying education and public programs were made possible by Bank of America. (amnh.org)
  • The SEM imaging technique is now being applied to many other ancient fossils, Mann said. (jordantimes.com)
  • A collection of more than 30,000 ancient fossils, including dinosaur skeletons, are facing the risk of destruction in Hebei province, north China, unless effective measures are taken to protect them from further damage. (people.cn)
  • Think about it: Where are the human fossils that have been found with the recently extinct Pyrenean Ibex? (apologeticspress.org)
  • Scientists sometimes use fossils of extinct mollusks called ammonites as guides to gauge which geologic period a nearby specimen comes from. (livescience.com)
  • Based on fossils of extinct mollusks called ammonites (shown here) found in the same slab that held the Archaeopteryx fossil, scientists dated the dinosaur to about 152 million years ago. (livescience.com)
  • This suggests that the wings belonged to hatchlings, probably of enantiornithine birds - a primitive group that had teeth and clawed wings, and that went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. (nature.com)
  • Dinosaurs may have 'experimented' with different flight styles and degrees of [flying] proficiency that went extinct together with the non-avian dinosaurs. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • However, these studies are limited with regard to extinct organisms, particularly those from the Mesozoic because fossils pose unique challenges to molecular workflows, and because prevailing wisdom suggests no endogenous molecular components can persist into deep time. (lu.se)
  • Most dinosaurs went extinct, but some smaller, birdlike ones survived and evolved into the birds we see today. (kesq.com)
  • Drawing on these results we will be able to partly recreate the cognition of long extinct species, by making brain models based on fossils. (lu.se)
  • Researchers say the plant-eating dinosaur weighed the equivalent of more than 14 African elephants, or about 100 tons (222,462 pounds), and stretched up to 40 meters (130 feet) in length. (inquirer.net)
  • In addition to the skeletal remains, fossil imprints of leaves and stems have been found, which could help researchers rebuild the ecosystem at the time. (inquirer.net)
  • Jan. 28, 2019 Researchers have performed molecular analysis on fossil feathers from a small, feathered dinosaur from the Jurassic. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Vinther hopes that this analysis of the cloaca encourages other researchers to look again at their fossils to see if there is more insight into how dinosaurs attracted mates. (newscientist.com)
  • The researchers identified 80 individual dinosaur skeletons, as well as nests and about 100 eggs. (deccanherald.com)
  • The researchers measured the skeletons and counted growth rings in their bones to ascertain the dinosaurs' approximate sizes and ages. (deccanherald.com)
  • The researchers interpreted the configuration of their nests layer upon layer through the rock as evidence the dinosaurs kept returning to the same place (called nest-site fidelity). (deccanherald.com)
  • After years of excavations, the researchers were finally able to move the fossil to Albuquerque with the help of the National Guard, which employed a Blackhawk helicopter to airlift the precious finding. (aol.com)
  • PARIS - A finger-sized fossil from 308 million years ago unearthed in the United States gives tantalising clues to the habits of tiny dinosaur-like creatures that may be the forerunners of reptiles, researchers recently revealed. (jordantimes.com)
  • The researchers used a highly sensitive imaging technique called scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to get an up-close look at the nearly perfect fossil. (jordantimes.com)
  • This didn't strike researchers as unusual - fossils are almost always found damaged or incomplete - but upon unearthing the other hand, they realized they had found something special. (troymedia.com)
  • The researchers note that while a scar was found in this specimen, it may not have been present in all non-avian dinosaurs. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • While museum researchers have found many fossils following the floods, this fossil is significant because it contains an intact skull, a rare find since most are discovered crushed or flattened. (cottagelife.com)
  • In the next year, museum researchers will examine the fossil and determine if it is a new species. (cottagelife.com)
  • Mallon, a co-author of a new study led by Chinese researchers, said they believe the fossil is the first ever discovered that shows a mammal and dinosaur fighting each other. (phys.org)
  • Researchers from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich recently discovered the oldest fossil in the Archaeopteryx genus, and their findings shed new light the evolutionary steps between bird-like dinosaurs and modern birds . (earth.com)
  • Researchers led by Oliver Rauhut, an LMU professor from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, analyzed the fossil using stratigraphy. (earth.com)
  • The researchers were able to use the fossil to show differences between Archaeopteryx and both of its bird and dinosaur relatives. (earth.com)
  • Researchers in Australia have confirmed that a crocodile that lived 93 million years ago ate a juvenile dinosaur as its last meal. (fox13now.com)
  • Fossils of the crocodile Confractosuchus sauroktonos, which means "the broken crocodile dinosaur killer," were discovered in 2010 in Central Queensland by researchers from the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum, according to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation . (fox13now.com)
  • Early studies of the fossils found that small bones were detected in the gut of the crocodile, so researchers sent it off to get scanned. (fox13now.com)
  • In the study published in the journal Gondwana Research on Friday, researchers announced that the bones belonged to a partially-digested dinosaur, which may have weighed around 1kg to 1.7kg. (fox13now.com)
  • To fill in this gap in the fossil record, researchers in China have studied more than 1,000 fossilized dinosaur eggs from the Shanyang basin in central China. (kesq.com)
  • The analysis found whole eggs and eggshell fragments from just three species of dinosaurs, which suggested low dinosaur biodiversity during that time period, the researchers said. (kesq.com)
  • The researchers said their finding from fossilized eggs was consistent with the fossilized dinosaur bones found in the same and surrounding region, although they did discover a few additional dinosaur bones from the region that show tyrannosaurs and sauropods also lived in the area between 66.4 million and 68.2 million years ago. (kesq.com)
  • By analyzing the features of the bones, researchers Sanaa El-Sayed, Iman El-Dawoudi, Mai El-Amir, and Sara Saber of MUVP, led by Sallam, have concluded that the Mansourasaurus is more closely related to dinosaurs from Europe and Asia than it is to those found farther south in Africa or in South America, indicating a solid link between the continents. (natureasia.com)
  • We are visited by researchers from the Department of Geology at Lund University, who show different fossils - some of them several hundred million years old! (lu.se)
  • In order to study what happened at the time of the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago, the researchers take us to the Badlands region of south-western North Dakota in the USA to look for fossilised pollen. (lu.se)
  • And now Sarah Werning of the University of California at Berkeley, US, and colleagues have identified medullary tissue in teenage specimens of two more dinosaurs, the predator Allosaurus and the plant-eating Tenontosaurus . (newscientist.com)
  • What's more, nearly 75% of the named dinosaurs are represented by five fossil specimens or less. (apologeticspress.org)
  • Rauhut added that the specimens also show a great deal of diversity in their physical characteristics, which suggests that the fossils could represent more than one species. (livescience.com)
  • One of two fossil specimens showing the pale underside of the wing and the dark brown feathers on the leading edge. (nature.com)
  • Preparation of fossil vertebrates, backboned animals, is a very very meticulous process, it's one which we bring these specimens back to the laboratory, often times we don't even know how good they are we get them back here, but then our technicians take and they open the packages, and then depending on how hard the matrix is, basically the dirt or the rocks, surrounding the bones, they take different strategies. (khanacademy.org)
  • The modified imaging method increases laser intensity in previously established laser imaging techniques without damaging specimens, allowing fine details to be seen in fossils that otherwise would go unseen, Gizmodo reports. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Both specimens are on display at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum. (fox13now.com)
  • A new paper describes a new feathered dinosaur about 30 centimeters in length which pre-dates bird-like dinosaurs that birds were long thought to have evolved from. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Co-authored by Dr Gareth Dyke, Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Southampton, the paper describes a new feathered dinosaur about 30 cm in length which pre-dates bird-like dinosaurs that birds were long thought to have evolved from. (sciencedaily.com)
  • That title was undermined after fossils discovered more recently in Asia suggested that Archaeopteryx was just one of many bird-like dinosaurs to roam the planet. (livescience.com)
  • A collection of three fossilized bird-like dinosaurs with surprising fingers has resulted in the discovery of an entirely new species by a team led by a University of Alberta alumnus. (troymedia.com)
  • This study focuses on a spectacular fossil - a block of three bird-like dinosaurs preserved together," said Greg Funston, lead author of the study. (troymedia.com)
  • Experts at the museum believe the fossil, which was wedged inside a 1,300-kilogram block, is a potentially new species of hadrosaur, duck-billed, plant-eating dinosaur with an elongated skull. (cottagelife.com)
  • But the fossil shows a badger-sized Repenomamus robustus sitting on top of Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, a plant-eating dinosaur that stood 120 centimeters (47 inches) tall and had a beak like a parrot. (phys.org)
  • Two men fishing along the banks of Castle River in Southern Alberta caught a glimpse of something far more exciting than a big fat trout-they spotted the remains of a duck-billed dinosaur. (cottagelife.com)
  • Some of the highlights of the family included the "mummified" duck-billed dinosaur that son George Sternberg found in Wyoming in 1908. (unexplainable.net)
  • Macroolithus yaotunensis and Elongatoolithus elongatus belonged to a group of toothless dinosaurs known as oviraptors, while the third, Stromatoolithus pinglingensis, was a plant-eating hadrosaur, or a member of the duck-billed dinosaur group. (kesq.com)
  • Smaller three-toed tracks were probably made by small theropod dinosaurs. (nps.gov)
  • Certain theropod dinosaurs, such as Sinosauropteryx , have fossilized fibers. (icr.org)
  • Paleontologists in Argentina's remote Patagonia region have discovered fossils of what may be the largest dinosaur ever, amid a vast cache of fossils that could shed light on prehistoric life. (inquirer.net)
  • In fact, one scientist has admitted that "the mantra of all paleontologists" is "we need more fossils! (apologeticspress.org)
  • When the first Archaeopteryx fossils were discovered in the 19th century, paleontologists recognized the finds' mix of avian and reptilian features - such as feathers and a full set of teeth - and declared these raven-size creatures the earliest known birds. (livescience.com)
  • Paleontologists have virtually no clues to the origin of the ornithischian [bird-hipped] dinosaurs. (icr.org)
  • For all the dinosaurs fans, the fossil will be on display at the museum and people will be able to watch paleontologists at work, removing rocks and dirt from it. (aol.com)
  • Paleontologists have also found on the same Psittacosaurus fossil a dinosaur cloaca and countershading camouflage , Gizmodo reports. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Paleontologists often describe Archaeopteryx fossils as transitional because they bridge the gap between dinosaurs and birds. (earth.com)
  • Studying this group as a whole has yielded a wealth of knowledge for paleontologists, since pygostyles seem to mark the transition from the "long, straight, skinny tails of [dinosaurs] into the little, fused, stubby tails [birds] have today," Brusatte told Pickrell. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Developed with leading paleontologists, each dinosaur is brought to life using realistic likenesses, movement and sound. (wkrn.com)
  • The eggs and fossils on display here are from the world's 3rd-largest dinosaur fossil excavation site and 2nd-largest hatchery at Raiyoli, Balasinor, Gujarat. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientists in China say they have discovered the world's largest dinosaur fossil site in the eastern province of Shandong. (jennifermarohasy.com)
  • For the first time, we're seeing the feathers associated with the skeletal materials," says co-author Ryan McKellar , who studies fossils in amber as curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina, Canada. (nature.com)
  • Peter Makovicky , a curator at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, who studies dinosaurs, says that these finds will help to reduce some of the detective work needed to infer a 3D structure from 2D fossils. (nature.com)
  • The rocks around the fossil were formed 70 million years ago in a time when the area was a sea coast, according to curator Spencer Lucas who explained that such environments full of rivers and mud could have easily trapped the baby dinosaur and cause its death. (aol.com)
  • Because of a lack of funding and appropriate protection facilities, the fossils collected by the Shijiazhuang Economic Institute were beginning to weather and oxidize, said Yang Jianping, curator of the museum under the institute. (people.cn)
  • Donald Henderson, Curator of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, with the fossil. (cottagelife.com)
  • Based on the eroded and exposed teeth, as well as its size, we are confident that it is a hadrosaurian dinosaur," says Donald Henderson , curator of dinosaurs, in a release on the museum's website. (cottagelife.com)
  • Birds, the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, do not reproduce until they reach full adult size, as do small mammals. (newscientist.com)
  • This discovery sheds further doubt on the theory that the famous fossil Archaeopteryx -- or "first bird" as it is sometimes referred to -- was pivotal in the evolution of modern birds," says Dr Dyke, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Most birds, which evolved from dinosaurs, don't have a penis and reproduce using "cloacal kissing", im which cloacas touch. (newscientist.com)
  • Do we see dinosaurs as exhibiting complex social behaviour like modern birds, or perhaps more rudimentary habits, as seen in crocodiles and alligators? (deccanherald.com)
  • Their nests in the ground were spaced about seven metres (or one dinosaur length) apart, suggesting that like modern communally nesting birds, they liked to be close - but not so close that they would bite and bicker. (deccanherald.com)
  • Evolutionary museums and textbooks have often portrayed modern birds as the descendants of dinosaurs, a story that has been presented without empirical support. (icr.org)
  • 2 Although these dinosaurs walked on two legs placed underneath their bodies like birds do, that is where the similarities end. (icr.org)
  • These dinosaurs were not the ancestors of birds. (unexplainable.net)
  • Yes, birds are technically modern dinosaurs . (smithsonianmag.com)
  • As John Pickrell at National Geographic reports, scientists have now discovered a 127-million-year-old fossil that blends its avian features with some pretty prehistoric quirks, shedding new light on the evolution of flying birds. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • This is] one of the most important fossil birds found in recent years," Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh who did not participate in the research, told Pickrell. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • I am a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies the anatomy, phylogeny, and evolution of fossil vertebrates, particularly dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. (lu.se)
  • We've published numerous articles on brain endocast structure in all the major groups of crocodilians, dinosaurs, and fossil birds, including diverse ornithischians, sauropods, and theropods. (lu.se)
  • The main focus of the project is the Sauropsida lineage, that is, reptiles and birds, which include both the dinosaurs and the crocodilians. (lu.se)
  • New discoveries, new technology, and new ideas are helping today's scientists piece together what these living, breathing dinosaurs were really like. (amnh.org)
  • Recent discoveries of feathered dinosaurs from the older Middle-Late Jurassic period have reinforced this theory. (sciencedaily.com)
  • New discoveries and technologies reveal how dinosaurs lived, moved, and behaved. (echovermont.org)
  • The proteins should reveal more about dinosaur evolution because they vary much more between species. (com.pk)
  • It was thrilling for my students to uncover bone after bone, as each new element we recovered helped to reveal who this giant dinosaur was. (natureasia.com)
  • Newly discovered fossils may reveal the exact day that the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (bonneville.com)
  • The oldest record of dinosaur bone fossils is of middle Jurassic period, and they are found from Patcham formation of Kutch basin. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fossils were found in the Songhir Bagh Basin, the Himatnagar basin of Balasinor, south-eastern parts of Kheda, Panchmahal and Vadodara districts of the state. (wikipedia.org)
  • A previous study discovered that dinosaurs called Oviraptors found brooding on fossil nests were not fully grown - showing that they bred early, like primitive reptiles. (newscientist.com)
  • For the first time, scientists have found eggs with shells inside a dinosaur fossil, strengthening previous conjectures about the ancient reptiles' reproductive physiology. (sciencenews.org)
  • This fossil egg, one of two found in a female dinosaur's pelvic cavity, retains its shell and external texture. (sciencenews.org)
  • Bones from at least seven individual dinosaurs, including some believed to be younger, were found at the site. (inquirer.net)
  • The fossilised remains found in north-eastern China indicate that, while feathered, this was a flightless dinosaur, because of its small wingspan and a bone structure that would have restricted its ability to flap its wings. (sciencedaily.com)
  • So, it would seem that if dinosaurs and humans really did once live at the same time (as the Bible teaches), human fossils would have been found near, or in the same strata of Earth as, dinosaur fossils. (apologeticspress.org)
  • Still, many wonder why dinosaur and human fossils may not have been found side-by-side in the fossil record. (apologeticspress.org)
  • Simply because human fossils may not have been found with dinosaur fossils does not make the case for the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans any less credible. (apologeticspress.org)
  • Archaeologists in the province found an almost intact a set of dinosaur fossil which is more than 10 meters long and 2.3 meters high. (china.org.cn)
  • Also found were dozens of fossils of dinosaur limb bones, claws and backbones in Anlongbao Town of Shuangbai County in the past two months. (china.org.cn)
  • Wang said there was the possibility that a new dinosaur species would be found among the fossils. (china.org.cn)
  • In 1979, a cluster of dinosaur fossils was found in Zigong City in southwest China's Sichuan Province, which hosts more than 100 sets of dinosaur fossils in a local museum. (china.org.cn)
  • Horner and colleagues found evidence that the adult Maiasaura dinosaurs returned to the same nesting spot year after year, showing enough intelligence to remember the place and appreciate its favourable character, whether access to food or safety. (deccanherald.com)
  • The sites in southern Germany where Archaeopteryx fossils have been found were once islands in a chain known as the Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago. (livescience.com)
  • In 2010, a private collector found an Archaeopteryx specimen at Gerstner Quarry, where tourists can dig for fossils, just outside of the Bavarian village of Schamhaupten, north of Munich. (livescience.com)
  • This dinosaur fossil with fang-like teeth, Tianyulong confuciusi, has been found with fibers that resemble structures believed by some evolutionists to be the precursors of feathers-the only problem is, it's the wrong category of dinosaur to have them! (icr.org)
  • 4 In other words, no fossils from their imagined evolutionary precursors have yet been found. (icr.org)
  • Second, no dinosaur has been found with any undisputed transitional feature. (icr.org)
  • A violent encounter with a rival dinosaur may explain why Big John, the most massive Triceratops skeleton ever found, has a keyhole-shaped opening on its frill, a new study finds. (livescience.com)
  • We were hoping to use this backhoe to carefully scrape away the top of this black soil where we found some of these smaller chunks of bone to uncover fossils that were probably about one to two metres underneath the ground, where they hadn't starting breaking apart and coming to the surface, where they were in better condition. (abc.net.au)
  • The fossil bones found at the site include individuals of different sizes. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Fossils found in Mongolia and China of the horned dinosaur date from 100 million to 122 million years ago. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • To determine the age of the fossil, the team measured the length and growth of its femur and found that the specimen was nearing sexual maturity at six to seven years old, per Gizmodo . (smithsonianmag.com)
  • They were discovered at a site nicknamed 'Chinese Pompeii' because of how many dinosaurs and other animals have been found preserved by volcanic debris there. (phys.org)
  • They were discovered at a site nicknamed "Chinese Pompeii" because of how many dinosaurs and other animals have been found preserved by volcanic debris there, similar to the ancient Roman city. (phys.org)
  • The first fossil suggesting that mammals ate dinosaurs was found at the Chinese site in 2005. (phys.org)
  • All Archaeopteryx fossils have been found in Northern Bavaria in the Altmühl River valley. (earth.com)
  • The new find is the 11th fossil specimen of Archaeopteryx found to date. (earth.com)
  • Because of the limited number of fossils that have been found and the wide range of variations in anatomy among them, there is a good deal of uncertainty about the genus and its species. (earth.com)
  • Plus, no eggs have been found for many dinosaur species, even well-known ones such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Chiarenza said. (kesq.com)
  • The study found a "graveyard of fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur," which is the first of its kind because it comes from the exact day that the dinosaurs were wiped out, according to the study's lead author, Robert DePalma. (bonneville.com)
  • DePalma was originally disappointed when he found very little at the fossil site. (bonneville.com)
  • But then he started digging a little bit more and found fossils covered in little glass balls, which were signs that the fossils had been blown into the air by an asteroid, according to The Bismark Tribune . (bonneville.com)
  • The fossil was found in July 2020 in China's southwestern province of Sichuan. (kyodonews.net)
  • They have found fossilised grains of pollen that provide us with answers to what happened to plant life at the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs. (lu.se)
  • Dinosaurs did not wait to have sex - adolescent females, including Tyrannosaurus rex , started reproducing before they had finished growing to adult size, a new study shows. (newscientist.com)
  • How do colossal Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops fossils get from the ground to the natural history museum? (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • This initial claim to the sequencing of endogenous collagen peptides from an approximately 68-Myr Tyrannosaurus rex fossil was highly controversial, largely on the grounds of potential contamination from either bacterial biofilms or from laboratory practice. (figshare.com)
  • The pattern of diversification and adaptation that we see fits into an ongoing puzzle of whether dinosaurs were already in decline before their extinction 66 million years ago. (troymedia.com)
  • However, it's not a slam dunk: The perpetrator could have been another horned dinosaur, like Torosaurus , which lived alongside Triceratops , Lucas said. (livescience.com)
  • Triceratops - My favourite Dinosaur. (lego.com)
  • The nests were shallow trenches in the ground containing eight to 30 spherical eggs arranged in rows and piled in layers, as we've seen with other sauropod dinosaurs. (deccanherald.com)
  • Some of the fossils she uncovered belonged to the ankylosaur, carnosaur and a sauropod , the first dinosaurs founding New Zealand. (unexplainable.net)
  • The dinosaur also had toes suited to walking along the ground and fewer feathers on its tail and lower legs, which would have made it easier to run. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The major, and most worrying, problem of the feathered dinosaur hypothesis is that the integumental structures have been homologized with avian feathers on the basis of anatomically and paleontologically unsound and misleading information. (icr.org)
  • Dinosaurs: Fuzzy origins for feathers. (icr.org)
  • Jordan C. Mallon, An extraordinary fossil captures the struggle for existence during the Mesozoic, Scientific Reports (2023). (phys.org)
  • The genus Archaeopteryx describes a group of feathered dinosaur species and is considered the earliest known bird. (earth.com)
  • The most recent fossil belonging to the genus was unearthed in 2010 and is the oldest known fossil of Archaeopteryx that has been discovered. (earth.com)
  • Did the massive asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wipe out a thriving and diverse population of dinosaurs, or were they already struggling to survive when that cataclysmic day dawned? (kesq.com)
  • Opponents of the theory of sudden death by asteroid point to a period of global cooling that may have made life hard for many dinosaur species . (kesq.com)
  • He remains convinced the asteroid strike was the true driver of dinosaur extinction. (kesq.com)
  • By studying pollen we can therefore see that the asteroid impact 66 million years ago not only affected dinosaurs and plants, but also insects. (lu.se)
  • 2018. An Inventory of Non-Avian Dinosaurs from National Park Service Areas. (nps.gov)
  • I have written over 150 research papers and several books, including the textbook Dinosaur Paleobiology (2012) and the pop science books The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018) and The Rise and Reign of the Mammals (2022). (lu.se)
  • The fight scene, preserved in a fossil discovered in China, suggests that small mammals preyed on the dinosaurs that ruled Earth. (phys.org)
  • Mammals were generally considered far too small to prey on the dinosaurs that dominated the world during the tens of millions of years they shared on Earth. (phys.org)
  • The dinosaur also bears no bite marks , which mammals often leave on scavenged bodies. (phys.org)
  • Paleontologist Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Vigo in Spain who has worked on paleoclimate records from that period, said that fossilized eggs are not a reliable record of dinosaur diversity. (kesq.com)
  • However, fossil information from that time in other regions is much thinner, and it's not known whether the pattern seen in North America is representative of global dinosaur diversity then. (kesq.com)
  • Jurassic Quest is the largest and most realistic dinosaur experience in North America and part of the Family Quest Entertainment portfolio. (wkrn.com)
  • This is "the most complete discovery of this type of giant dinosaur in the world, a momentous discovery for science," cheered Jose Luis Carballido, one of eight scientists who participated in the research. (inquirer.net)
  • The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But this new discovery predates any earlier identification of this behaviour by 40 million years, and is closer to the origin of dinosaurs about 250 million years ago. (deccanherald.com)
  • The discovery fills a gap in the fossil record and will hopefully lead to further insight into the evolutionary history of the dinosaurs in general. (theverge.com)
  • Now, a new "feathered" dinosaur discovery has thrown a wrench into the already dysfunctional machinery of the dino-to-bird tale. (icr.org)
  • Fossils of an Australian dinosaur dating back more than 100 million years have been unearthed for the first time since a famous discovery in the 1930s. (abc.net.au)
  • At an early Jurassic site in Patagonia, Argentina, the team studied fossils of a dinosaur species called Mussaurus patagonicus which, according to their new dating analysis, lived at the site about 193 million years ago. (deccanherald.com)
  • Further excavations at the promising fossil site are now being undertaken by team of palaeontologists from the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco (UNPSJB), who have already unearthed several significant finds. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • The Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, is a park that houses fossilized remains and petrified eggs of dinosaurs. (wikipedia.org)
  • The institute, formerly named Hebei Institute of Geology, is well-known for its collection of dinosaur fossils, including footprints, skeletons, and eggs. (people.cn)
  • The eggs and eggshell fragments represent the last 2 million years of the dinosaur era, with fossils representing each 100,000-year interval. (kesq.com)
  • He pointed to recent research that many dinosaurs probably had soft-shelled eggs that would be unlikely to fossilize. (kesq.com)
  • I don't believe there are any rock formations in Shasta County that could support finding dinosaur eggs. (thefossilforum.com)
  • Did you know that nearly half of all dinosaur genera that have been named are based on one, single fossil specimen? (apologeticspress.org)
  • Before the auction, Big John was taken to Italy, where study co-researcher Flavio Bacchia, of the fossil restoration company Zoic, prepared the specimen. (livescience.com)
  • As I was initially working on the specimen, I noticed that most of the knuckle bones of the third finger were missing in the fossil," said Funston. (troymedia.com)
  • Age of Reptiles": Uncovering the Mesozoic Fossil Record in three Intermountain national parks. (nps.gov)
  • Here, the power and potential of a molecular approach to Mesozoic fossils is discussed. (lu.se)
  • Molecular methods that have been applied to Mesozoic fossils-including iconic, non-avian dinosaurs- and the challenges inherent in such analyses, are compared and evaluated. (lu.se)
  • The animal is among the last species of dinosaurs that walked the Earth before their extinction some 66 million years ago. (natureasia.com)
  • A DINOSAUR bone buried for 80 million years has yielded a mix of proteins and microstructures resembling cells. (com.pk)
  • The Saurischia dinosaurs possessed a hip structure that was similar to that of a lizard, where the pubis bone pointed downwards and forwards. (unexplainable.net)
  • The Ornithischia dinosaurs had a hip structure that resembled that of a bird, where the pubis bone pointed downwards and toward the tail. (unexplainable.net)
  • In the initial scan in 2015, I spotted a buried bone in there that looked like a chicken bone with a hook on it and thought straight away that it was a dinosaur," said Senior Instrument Scientist Dr. Joseph Bevitt in a news release. (fox13now.com)
  • A decade ago, reports that organic-rich soft tissue survived from dinosaur fossils were apparently supported by proteomics-derived sequence information of exceptionally well-preserved bone. (figshare.com)
  • It appears that these fibrous processes were present with the very earliest dinosaurs, whether they were theropods or not. (icr.org)
  • The fragmentary fossil includes six back vertebrae, two adjacent tail vertebrae, and other bones from the dinosaur's pelvic area, says Tamaki Sato of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. (sciencenews.org)
  • LSF brings out the detail in spectacular fashion," Phil Bell, a dinosaur paleontologist involved with the study, tells Gizmodo . (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The British paleontologist Harry Govier Seeley (1839 - 1909) took a look at the hip structures of dinosaurs as a way to divide the pre-historic creatures into different categories. (unexplainable.net)
  • Friedrich von Huene (1875 - 1969) was a German paleontologist that had the pleasure of giving a great deal of dinosaurs their names. (unexplainable.net)
  • Palaeontologist Matthew Lamanna, principal dinosaur researcher at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, in the US, describes the reigitheriid find as: "one of the best fossils of its kind of mammal ever discovered," when presenting the early findings at a meeting of the Geological Society of America. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • A badger-like mammal was sinking its teeth into the ribs of a dinosaur three times its size when they were buried in volcanic ash 125 million years ago, capturing the pair in a deadly embrace. (phys.org)
  • The mammal-one of the largest of its time but still a third the weight of the dinosaur-is sinking his sharp teeth into the dinosaur's ribs and gripping onto its leg. (phys.org)
  • The way the pair are intertwined shows that the mammal was not scavenging on a dead dinosaur, Mallon said. (phys.org)
  • The dinosaur has collapsed down and trapped the hind limb of the mammal in the fold of its knee," indicating it was an attack, he said. (phys.org)
  • Fossilized remains belonging to an individual dinosaur, christened Mansourasaurus shahinae gen , have been discovered in the Quseir formations of the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert. (natureasia.com)
  • Ankylosaurus - A four legged herbivorous dinosaur with a plated, spiky back and a formidable clubbed boney tail used to crush the ribs of any attackers. (lego.com)
  • In the rock, individual fossils of leaves, flowers, insects and large quantities of microfossils such as pollen have been preserved. (lu.se)
  • If you find a pile of dinosaur skeletons, it doesn't mean they were living together. (deccanherald.com)
  • In 2016, Jakob Vinther at the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues were assessing evidence of camouflage in the well-preserved skin of a metre-long horn-billed dinosaur called Psittacosaurus . (newscientist.com)
  • The conclusions mirror those reached by another team that analysed the same Psittacosaurus fossil and posted their findings to a preprint server last year . (newscientist.com)
  • Holtz points out that a sample size of one makes it difficult to extrapolate how typical these features would be in Psittacosaurus , or indeed in dinosaurs in general. (newscientist.com)
  • It belongs to a Psittacosaurus , a member of the horned dinosaurs Ceratopsia, in a fossil uncovered in China. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The Psittacosaurus umbilical scar is similar to that of an adult alligator and is the first example of one in a non-avian dinosaur that predates the Cenozoic period, 66 million years ago, Science Alert reports. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • A reconstruction of the only fossilised dinosaur cloaca in existence may help illuminate how the prehistoric animals mated. (newscientist.com)
  • This suggests complex herd behaviour was widespread across all major dinosaur groups. (deccanherald.com)
  • The findings add to evidence that adolescence was the prime of life for dinosaurs. (newscientist.com)
  • The new 'bird-dinosaur' Eosinopteryx described in Nature Communications this week provides additional evidence to this effect. (sciencedaily.com)
  • But is there evidence from the fossil record of their coexistence? (apologeticspress.org)
  • Mussaurus is a sauropodomorph dinosaur - an early relative of later giants such as Brontosaurus and Diplodocus - but already showing evidence of large size. (deccanherald.com)
  • 6 Their lack of evolutionary ancestors, their sudden appearance in the fossil record, and the global evidence for a massive extinction like that recorded in the Bible add up to dinosaurs having been distinctly created according to their own kinds, just as Genesis recorded. (icr.org)
  • The news that this non-theropod dinosaur had fibers just adds more scientific evidence to corroborate the historical evidence that dinosaurs were created, not evolved. (icr.org)
  • Scientists had long speculated that egg-laying dinosaurs would have an umbilical scar, but this study is the first to find evidence of one. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Fossil preparators are highly skilled technicians who restore the naturally fractured bones and teeth of fossil to the original state, just as art conservators restore damaged paintings and sculptures. (khanacademy.org)
  • The fossil could be anywhere from 66 to 100 million-years-old and clearly shows parts of the spine, jaw, and teeth. (cottagelife.com)
  • Duck-billed dinosaurs had hundreds of teeth that lined both the upper and lower parts of the jaw. (cottagelife.com)
  • Advanced technology allows scientists to look at these fossils in fresh ways. (amnh.org)
  • Find out how advanced technologies allow scientists to look at fossils in fresh ways. (echovermont.org)
  • As he explains it to Pickrell at National Geographic , "This new bird fossil shows that [this evolutionary path] was much more messy [than we once thought]. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Based on initial research, these herbivorous dinosaurs were believed to live in the late Trias or early Jurassic periods, said Wang Guofu, a research fellow with Chuxiong Museum, which houses the unearthed dinosaur fossils. (china.org.cn)
  • As it turns out, J. perplexus may have been bafflingly ill-adapted at flying-due mostly to growing pains as it transitioned away from its dinosaur relatives. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • A footprint fossil of a new species of dinosaur discovered in China last year has been named "Eubrontes nobitai" in tribute to "Nobita," a pivotal character in the popular Japanese cartoon and animation Doraemon. (kyodonews.net)
  • Photo taken in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, in August 2020, shows a footprint fossil of a new species of dinosaur named "Eubrontes nobitai" in tribute to "Nobita," a pivotal character in the popular Japanese cartoon and animation Doraemon. (kyodonews.net)
  • Once discovered, the fossils are wrapped in plaster and prepped in a jacket for removal. (kfyrtv.com)
  • I have done fieldwork with colleagues around the world and have described over 20 new species of fossil vertebrates. (lu.se)
  • In fact, fossil preparators are mostly enthusiastic volunteers who come from all different backgrounds and receive their training on the job. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • Why are fossil preparators outliers in serious scientific research? (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • I am the 'resident palaeontologist' for the BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs programme, and the palaeontology advisor for the Jurassic World film franchise. (lu.se)
  • Eubrontes [or Bipedal theropod] fossilized tracks at Dinosaur Trackway NNL, Connecticut. (nps.gov)
  • Dr. Norell's theoretical work focuses on developing methodology for evaluating the effect of missing data on large data sets, sensitivity methods for character weighting, and using phylogeny to estimate patterns in the fossil record such as diversity and extinction. (amnh.org)
  • Some dinosaur and fossil hunters prefer to work alone as they excavate the mysteries of the prehistoric world, while others worked in teams. (unexplainable.net)
  • Jurassic Quest is a leader in edutainment, bringing the prehistoric era to life for families, educators and dinosaur fans of all ages. (wkrn.com)
  • We will be able to make a very precise reconstruction and answer many questions," Carballido said-including just what about southern Argentina made conditions favorable for so many massive dinosaur species. (inquirer.net)
  • In a new study published in Scientific Reports, Diego Pol from the Egidio Feruglio Paleontological Museum in Trelew, Argentina, together with international colleagues, argue that this kind of behaviour can be traced back to the origin of dinosaurs, or at least to the early Jurassic period, 193 million years ago. (deccanherald.com)
  • By covering a range of dinosaurs, the new study gets closer to the base of the dinosaur family tree, says Kristi Curry Rogers of Macalester College in Minnesota, a coauthor of the oviraptor paper. (newscientist.com)
  • The study names this new species, Oksoko avarsan, describes the morphology of its skeleton, and explores some of the biological information the fossils provide about these dinosaurs. (troymedia.com)
  • Kids love dinosaurs for a lot of reasons: They're powerful and fierce, or they look like giant lizards, or there's hundreds of different kinds to study, obsess over and tell the adults around them all about. (plasticsnews.com)
  • When these continents were separated, the fauna and the dinosaurs that lived on them were affected by this movement, and to understand what happened to them you need to discover the dinosaur first," says Iman Abdel Aziz, one of the co-authors of the study. (natureasia.com)
  • In a subsequent study, collagen peptide sequences from an approximately 78 Myr Brachylophosaurus canadensis fossil were reported which has remained largely unchallenged. (figshare.com)
  • Von Huene named the controversial Altispinax (meaning 'high spine'), which was identified from only a single tooth, the small, lightweight dinosaur that walked on two legs called the Saltopus ('leaping foot') and Antarctosaurus , a giant four-legged plant eater with a long neck and long tail. (unexplainable.net)
  • The dinosaur remains were unearthed in southern China from petrified sediments laid down between 100 million and 65 million years ago. (sciencenews.org)
  • Evolutionists believe Gingko trees were living on Earth 240 million years ago ( before dinosaurs supposedly evolved). (apologeticspress.org)
  • A group of dinosaur fossils, dating back 120 million years, has been excavated in the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (china.org.cn)
  • Scientists have identified a new species that may have lived 15 million years earlier than any other known dinosaur. (theverge.com)
  • Until now, dinosaurs were often cited as appearing roughly 230 million years ago. (theverge.com)
  • Proteins such as collagen are far more durable than DNA, but they had not been expected to last the 65 million years since the dinosaurs died out. (com.pk)
  • The fossils were discovered to be from 66 million years ago in what is now North Dakota. (bonneville.com)