Paleontology News

We've had a few dinosaur bones collected in New Zealand. Now footprints are adding to the picture.

A new hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, has been discovered in Huesca, Spain, scientists at the University of Basque Country said.

Dinosaurs Unearthed's experts contend that the world's current fine, feathered friends started out as scaly, reptilian creatures with quills and plumes.

This dinosaur print in Plagne, France, said by scientists to be one of the biggest in the world, measures around 1.5 meters in diameter.

The plan, proposed by an international consortium of scientists, is to obtain, preserve, and sequence the DNA of approximately one species for each genus of living mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

Most notable among these fossils is the discovery of a new hadrosaur, the Arenysaurus ardevoli , found in Huesca, Spain.

FOSSIL fuels have a new crime to live down. A frenzy of hydrocarbon burning at the end of the Permian period may have led to the most devastating mass extinction Earth has ever seen, as explosive encounters between magma and coal released more carbon dioxide in the course of a few years than in all of human history.

Before there were flowers, pollination of plants by insects was likely rare, and scientists had no idea of the insect culprits. But a new discovery suggests at least one flittering pollinator.

A spectacular Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta.

New fossil discoveries, improved scientific methods and a different classification system have helped increase the body of knowledge about dinosaurs and produced conclusions that wouldn't have occurred to scientists before.

A Jurassic Park is coming to the St. Louis Science Center this weekend. 20 life-sized animatronics dinosaurs will be on display.

Fluorescent rocks, ancient fossils, and the first dinosaur paintings are on view at Morven Museum and Garden as part of its new exhibition, 'Rocks & Dinos!' The show is anchored by the work of British naturalist artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins , whose large oil paintings feature dinosaurs, ancient mammals, and landscapes from different geologic ...

We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.

Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse in the 1930s.

Scientists have identified the most ancient fossil relative of the predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.

The terrible teens were truly terrifying when Tyrannosaurus Rex was alive, research has shown.

Paleontologist Fernando Novas shows a replica of the dinosaur Austroraptor cabazai at the Argentine Museum of Natural Science Bernardino Rivadavia in Buenos Aires on December 17, 2008.

Ankylosaurs are the biological version of an army tank; they were protected by a plate-like armor with two sets of sharp spikes on each side of the head, and a skull so thick that even 'raptors' such as Deinonychus could leave barely more than a scratch.

Dr Peterson says other adolescent animals, particularly juvenile crocodiles, exhibit such fighting behaviour.

Dinosaurs have triumphed over the seven dwarfs and an enchanted castle - at least for now.