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Paleontologists have found and described what may be the last dinosaur body part we didn’t know anything about – the butthole. Better yet, it seems like it might have evolved to look and yes, even smell, nice to suitors.Continue ReadingCategory: Scienc… Continue reading First dinosaur butt discovered and described in (too much) detail
Paleontologists have found and described what may be the last dinosaur body part we didn’t know anything about – the butthole. Better yet, it seems like it might have evolved to look and yes, even smell, nice to suitors.Continue ReadingCategory: Scienc… Continue reading First dinosaur butt discovered and described in (too much) detail
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that’s a real show-off. Ubirajara jubatus is a small creature found with strange spikes sticking out of its shoulders, which scientists speculate were used as ornaments like a peacock’s tail.Con… Continue reading New dinosaur dazzled with ornaments never before seen in fossil record
A tyrannosaur and a triceratops, locked in combat for 67 million years, will finally be put on public display for the very first time. Known as the Dueling Dinosaurs, the incredible fossil captures predator and prey preserved together, seemingly mid-ba… Continue reading Incredible “Dueling Dinosaurs” to go on public display for the first time
The bones of the only dinosaurs to be found on the island of Ireland have been confirmed by a research team led by Dr. Mike Simms, a curator and paleontologist at National Museums NI. Drawing on the expertise of scientists from the University of Portsm… Continue reading Ireland’s first and only dinosaur finds confirmed
If the movie Jurassic World is to be believed, pterosaurs could easily catch and eat human-sized prey. A newly discovered species of the prehistoric flying reptile wouldn’t have posed much of a threat to us, however, as it likely fed more like a modern… Continue reading Newly discovered pterosaur walked along the shore to feed on worms
Along with the megalodon shark, the mosasaur was likely one of the most ferocious prehistoric marine predators. A previously unknown species of the reptile has now been classified, and it sported a crocodile-like snout that may have allowed it to catch… Continue reading “New” mosasaur had a fish-grabbing snout like a crocodile
Somebody has bought an almost complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over US$30 million. Lovingly nicknamed Stan, the rex was the star attraction in Christie’s Evening Sale of 20th Century Art on October 6, and that price makes it comfortably the highest amount ever paid for a dinosaur fossil.
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Continue reading Stan the T-rex sets record for highest price paid for a dinosaur fossil
Scientists have successfully extracted DNA from insects trapped in amber. But before you start dreaming of a certain park, there’s one huge caveat to mention – any creatures you might revive from this would hail from the not-so-distant past of about 20… Continue reading Scientists successfully extract insect DNA from amber – from 2014
Debate is raging about whether pterosaurs, flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs, had feathers or not. Two years ago a study claimed to have found fossil evidence of “protofeathers” on pterosaurs, but now another team claims the evidence d… Continue reading Did pterosaurs have feathers? Scientific debate takes flight in new study