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As if Komodo dragons didn’t seem ferocious enough already, scientists have now discovered that the reptiles tear through flesh using a coating of iron on their teeth. It is now believed that dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have been similarly endowed.
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Continue reading Metal mouth – Komodo dragons’ teeth found to have a sharp iron coating
No creature in the history of planet Earth sparks the imagination quite like Tyrannosaurus rex. But how do we separate the movie-monster myth from the actual animal? Victoria the T-rex, a traveling exhibition currently visiting Melbourne Museum in Aust… Continue reading The life of Victoria the T-Rex, and what Jurassic Park got wrong
Paleontologists uncovered the dinosaur’s fragmented skull in 2019 in northern Montana, two miles (3.2 km) south of the US-Canada border. It wasn’t until they started piecing the skull together that they realized it was a new type of dinosaur belonging … Continue reading Never-before-seen dinosaur’s unique headgear earns it a godly name
A single vertebra dug out of a boulder in a stream below a mountain in New Zealand in 1978 has now been found to have belonged to the oldest known sea reptile in the Southern Hemisphere, where no record of these huge beasts had existed until now. It da… Continue reading 246-million-year-old giant sea lizard is oldest to be found in the region
While we don’t like to talk ill of the dead, new physiological analysis has found that the king of the dinosaurs was not so smart after all. It upends previous research that last year likened the brain and neuronal composition of the Tyrannosaurus rex … Continue reading T. Rex was not as smart as we were made to believe
The six-foot-tall raptors in the Jurassic Park movies were terrifying enough, but now scientists have described a giant new raptor species whose legs alone were that tall.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Dinosaurs, University of Queensla… Continue reading Giant raptor dinosaur had legs taller than you
A newly described species of marine reptile could be the largest to ever swim the world’s oceans. The “giant fish lizard” lived more than 200 million years ago, and may give the blue whale a run for its money, size-wise.
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Continue reading World’s largest marine reptile gives blue whale a run for its money
Scientists have long puzzled over why some dinosaurs had feathers and wings long before they evolved the ability of flight. Experiments with a robot dinosaur may now have revealed the answer – they used them for hunting.Continue ReadingCategory: Scienc… Continue reading Robot dinosaurs let loose to demonstrate hunting techniques
If Tyrannosaurus rex is too mainstream, discerning 10-year-olds may now have a new name to spout when asked their favorite dinosaur – Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis. The newly identified species appears to be more primitive than its famous cousin, but just a… Continue reading New species of giant Tyrannosaurus predates T. rex by 6 million years
With rapidly advancing techniques to assess fossil finds, we’ve never been in a better position to accurately piece together Earth’s early days. While there are still plenty of mysteries dating back millions of years, in 2023 we managed to solve a few,… Continue reading T. rex teeth to headbutting dinosaurs: Fossil finds of 2023