A new study reveals how a newly discovered dinosaurspecies, named Iani smithi, provides crucial insights into significant ecological changes that transpired in North America around 100 million years ago. Living during the early LateCretaceous, Iani smithi, discovered in Utah’s Cedar Mountain...
It was the public's first glimpse of the new species, which researchers named Lythronax argestes. The first part of the name means king of gore,'' and the second part is derived from poet Homer's southwest wind. The fossils were found in Utah in November 2009, and a team of ...
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – The dinosaur world has added a new family member with the discovery of a new species! Scientists at Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument have found fossils that belonged to a type of sauropod – long-necked plant-eaters that were said to be the largest animal ever ...
With its head crest and presumably feathered forelegs, the newly discovered and described dinosaur Anzu wyliei was nicknamed the "chicken from hell" by its discoverers at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and University of Utah. Cred...
Dinosaurs in Utah Ready to take a step back in time? With fossil records of more dinosaur species than any other state and the most complete record of prehistoric life of any geographic area on the planet, Utah offers one of the world's largest collections of mounted dinosaur skeletons ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or "thunder-thighs" after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica
Fabrosaurus - This early ornithopod may have been a species of Lesothosaurus. Falcarius - A bizarre, feathered theropod from North America. Ferganasaurus - The first dinosaur ever to be discovered in the USSR. Fruitadens - One of the tiniest dinosaurs ever to live in North America. ...
• Over 1000 different species of dinosaurs have been named and the list continues to grow as new fossils are discovered. • Some of the largest fossilized dinosaur eggs ever discovered were found in China in the mid 1990’s. The eggs are over 60cm (2ft) long and 20cm (8in) wide....
Stephen Poropat holds one of the sauropod bones discovered at the Ho-Hum site in Queensland, Australia. [Read the Full Story on the New Down Under Sauropod Findings] TOPICS newfound species Laura Geggel Editor Laura is the archaeology and Life's Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She...
The remains of a big-nosed dinosaur that stalked the Earth some 75 million years ago, possibly luring mates with its beauty of a schnozzle, have been discovered in central Utah. The beast's giant nose earned the dinosaur the nameRhinorexcondrupus, with the Latin word Rhinorex meaning "king...