The fossilized bones, found by eight - year - old Christopher Wolfe and his father, paleontologist Doug Wolfe of the Mesa Southwest Museum in Arizona, date to about 90 million years ago. This could mean that ceratopsians originated in North America and migrated to Asia rather than the revers...
A new study by Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests four bones recently found on the Isle of Wight belong to new species of theropod dinosaur, the group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex and modern-day birds. The dinosaur lived in the Cretaceous period 115 million years ago a...
Dinosaur fossils were found at a construction site recently in Dongxing, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. They are believed to be dinosaur fossils. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] "The fossils, including limb bones and vertebrae of dinosaurs, can be dated to the late Jurassic period," ex...
warm-bloodedness would have been a distinct advantage. There was, until recently, a vigorous argument between the cold-blooded and warm-blooded schools. Detailed study of the structure of the bones of dinosaurs has found favor
More than 4,300 dinosaur footprints have been discovered in Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, the most such markings found in one spot in the country, according to the Department of Natural Resources of Hebei, which...
It was recently found that the sex of their offspring is decided by the temperature of the nest. So if the same were true for dinosaurs, cooling temperatures in the Late Cretaceous may have caused all the young to be of the same sex, so the species would not have been able to continue...
As large bones are usually found in unsatisfactory conditions, this is considered a rare find. Despite its uniqueness, there have been many other fossils discovered in the same area of France. In fact, since 2010, more than 7,500 fossils have been discovered there. In addition to this exciti...
According to field notes, the bones were found in an association and likely belong to a single individual. The fossils are deposited in the collection of the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The Baynshire Formation is estimated to be late Cenomanian to Santonian ...
The name, meaning terrible lizard, applied to the fossil bones of certain large, ancient bipedal and quadripedal reptiles placed in the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ...
1 The Dinosaur That Was Found Exactly The Way It Looked Millions Of Years Ago Photo credit: allthatsinteresting.com Dinosaur fossils are rarely found intact. Bones, teeth, and, in rare instances, fossilized tissues are usually all the evidence that researchers have to prove the existence of a...