The skull, from a titanosaur, a type of sauropod, was found at a dig site in eastern Spain in 2007 and experts have spent the last few years studying it to see what secrets it may reveal. Lead author of the paper Dr Fabien Knoll, of The University of Manchester, said: "This is su...
Until recently, people simply knew that dinosaurs went extinct - their fossils were found throughout the Mesozoic era, but were not located in the rock layers (strata) of the Cenozoic era. So, we knew that dinosaurs went extinct some 64-66 million years ago, but that was all. Many wild...
The skull, from a titanosaur, a type of sauropod, was found at a dig site in eastern Spain in 2007 and experts have spent the last few years studying it to see what secrets it may reveal. Lead author of the paper Dr Fabien Knoll, of The University of Manchester, said: "This is su...
Fossils recovered from the late Aptian portion of the Budden Canyon Formation of northern California represent the oldest dinosaur remains known from the Pacific Slope of North America. Eight well-preserved elements, including most of the lower left limb and pes, belong to a small ornithopod ...
Hi I am wondering if you can get a positive ID out of these fossils I might be acquiring thanks!! The first is a ceratopsian vertebrae from the horseshoe canyon formation of Alberta Canada the second is a Cetiosaurus bone piece cut of a sauropod leg bone from Oxford England ...
Turannosaurus rex, species of large predatory theropod dinosaurs that lived during the end of the Cretaceous Period (about 66 million years ago) known from fossils found in the United States and Canada dating to between about 80 million and 66 million ye
But, we won’t know those differences exist until we look for them. Paleoecology is first and foremost comparative: we take our fossils and compare them to other related taxa and living forms to better understand their place in the original community. Often we assign categories to taxa, such...
Study the armored Ankylosaurus. Discover how the first Ankylosaurus fossils were found. Learn how this dinosaur with a tail club lived, ate, and protected itself. Ankylosaurus: Armored Dinosaur with a Tail Club In 1906, the American paleontologistBarnum Brownled an expedition to a specimen at the...
Cabazon Dinosaurs,located in Riverside County,California,is an unusual roadside attraction that has been there since 1975.Home to over fifty larger-than-life dinosaur statues,this park is a fantastic place to let kids run wild,Visitors can hunt for fossils and participate in a dinosaur dig.Featu...
Five dinosaur hunters who found the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever dug up have been acquitted of charges that they illegally collected fossils on federal land.