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90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan’s Coast

A small iguanodontian fossil from Japan adds evidence that Late Cretaceous coastal ecosystems supported dinosaurs of widely different body sizes. Iguanodontians were widespread pla...

Scientists Discover Canada’s First Dinosaur Tracks From a Rarely Documented Cretaceous Age

Rare tracks from northeastern British Columbia reveal an ornithopod-dominated dinosaur community from a poorly documented period when much of western North America lay beneath an i...

210-million-year-old dinosaur discovery reveals a lost world in Africa

A newly identified 210-million-year-old dinosaur from Zimbabwe is helping scientists uncover a surprisingly distinct prehistoric ecosystem. The discovery suggests that ancient clim...

New species of 240-million-year-old prehistoric animal could reshape dinosaur origins timeline

A new prehistoric animal species from Tanzania dating to around 240 million years ago, during the Triassic period, has been described by an international team of researchers. Led b...

150-Million-Year-Old Tail Bones Found in Spain Reveal the First <em>Diplodocus</em> Outside North America

Learn how fossils from a Spanish town placed Diplodocus outside North America for the first time and offered evidence of dinosaur movement between continents.

A 240-million-year-old fossil just changed the dinosaur timeline

A newly identified 240-million-year-old animal from Tanzania is forcing scientists to rethink the early dinosaur timeline. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda belongs to a group previousl...

New analysis reconstructs the dawn of dinosaurs and other reptiles

About 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period, a large proportion of species on Earth rapidly became extinct. After this mass extinction, many groups of organisms b...

240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Challenges the Story of the First Dinosaurs

A newly identified mammal relative suggests that Tanzania’s possible early dinosaur fossils may be younger than previously thought. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, a newly identified...

4-winged fossil found in Liaoning challenges single origin of dinosaur flight

Scientists have unveiled an exceptionally well-preserved 100-million-year-old fossil of a small, feathered dinosaur in northeastern China that could reshape our understanding of ho...

Japan’s first named ankylosaur was linked to nodosaurids millions of years ago

Dinosaur named new species a century after fossil found on Isle of Wight

Invictibellatrix amberina, a predator in the megaraptoran group of dinosaurs, lived in what is now Britain 120 million years ago and may have had claws 20 centimetres long

Animation depicts newly-discovered dinosaur species

Scientists in the U.K. have discovered a new dinosaur species, the Invictibellatrix amberina, a two-legged carnivore that was a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex. The fossil that led...

Spectacular feathered dinosaur fossil shows bird-like adaptations

An exquisitely preserved fossil found in China shows that many anatomical features seen in birds also evolved independently in another group of dinosaurs

A 4’11” dinosaur ‘more dangerous than a T Rex’ once terrorised the Isle of Wight

'It would likely have had feathers and its claws might have been about 10cm to 20cm long.'

Small Dinosaurs May Have Had an Evolutionary Advantage Over Their Enormous Relatives

Were there ever small dinosaurs? Learn about the dinosaurs that lived alongside ancient giants and how their size may have helped them adapt, diversify, and survive in changing eco...

Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely preserved in the fossilised dropping

Scientists discover the first diplodocus ever found outside North America

A 150-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Spain has been identified as the first confirmed Diplodocus ever found outside North America. The giant sauropod measured about 25 meter...

Iconic Diplodocus Discovered In Spain – First Evidence Outside North America

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – One of the most complete diplodocid skeletons ever discovered in Europe is reported by paleontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontol...

Dinosaur fossil found deep underground in drill core in north China

BEIJING, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have discovered a dinosaur fossil buried hundreds of meters underground, not at a traditional excavation site but inside a drill core from...

A forgotten fossil reveals a fearsome dinosaur with giant claws

A 120-million-year-old fossil forgotten in a museum for nearly a century has revealed a terrifying new dinosaur that may have been more dangerous to humans than a T. rex. The tiger...

240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Turns Out to Be a New Species That Could Rewrite Dinosaur Evolution

Learn more about the newly identified species Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda and how its discovery could reshape scientists' understanding of the timeline of dinosaur origins.

Toothless 'hell chicken' dinosaur may have had a taste for fruit

While many dinosaurs were fearsome predators with razor-sharp teeth, others were peaceful herbivores munching on plants. We can now add a new species to the list of plant-eaters, I...

Newly identified dinosaur was a slimmer, more maneuverable cousin to T. rex

Scientists have identified a new meat-eating dinosaur that was a smaller cousin to T. rex. Invictabellatrix amberina lived about 125 million years ago in what's now southern Englan...

Across China: Dinosaur fossil found deep underground in drill core in north China

BEIJING, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have discovered a dinosaur fossil buried hundreds of meters underground, not at a traditional excavation site but inside a drill core from...