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Scientists can piece together a surprising amount of information from fossil specimens. Not only can they tell what a dinosaur may have looked like, but also how it lived and what it ate. From the rock in which the fossil was found they can tell how old it is. Top Ten Dinosaur Facts T...
After a year of preparation, paleontologists from Chinese Academy of Sciences and a local fossil center began the excavation in late May, following the discovery of dinosaur fossils at Longshan Mountain in the city of Yanji in May 2016. A 1.5-meter-long crocodile fossil was unearthed on June 1...
The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a large block of sandstone that had fallen from a cliff to the beach at Howick Bay in Northumberland. “It was a complete fluke of a discovery,” said Dr. Neil Davies from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences, the paper’s lead...
A complete skeleton of a basal sauropod dinosaur from the early jurassic of china and the origin of sauropoda.Sauropods were very successful group of herbivorous dinosaurs in terrestrial ecosystems, but their early evolution is poorly understood because of a highly incomple...
A small, feathered theropod dinosaur, Saurornitholestes langstoni was long thought to be so closely related to Velociraptor mongoliensis that some researchers called it Velociraptor langstoni—until now. Credit: Jan Sovak. The discovery of a nearly complete dromaeosauridSaurornitholestes langstonispecimen...
After this, thefossil recordwas effectively blank until much younger hot spring deposits in the USA and New Zealand, laid down around 13 million years ago in the Cenozoic era that we're still in today. The discovery of a rich assemblage of fossils from between these extremes could transform ...
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After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is probably around 3 million years old.