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Huge carnivorous dinosaur skeleton goes up for auction in New York

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Michael Irving

A 77-million-year-old Gorgosaurus skeleton is going under the hammer this month

As far as collectibles go, it’s hard to find something cooler than the skeleton of a long-dead apex predator. The latest to hit the auction block is a Gorgosaurus, a distant relative of T-rex, which will be offered for sale by Sotheby’s New York this month as the headline act for its Natural History sale.

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Tags: Dinosaurs, Auction, Sotheby’s, Fossils, Bones

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New “giant dragon” dinosaur offers clues to T-rex’s weirdly tiny arms

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Michael Irving

Paleontologists have described a new species of giant carnivorous dinosaur from a fairly complete skeleton in Patagonia. The discovery could help shed new light on the mystery of why such powerful predators had almost comically tiny arms.Continue Readi… Continue reading New “giant dragon” dinosaur offers clues to T-rex’s weirdly tiny arms→

BioFinder detects organic molecules in fossils, could help find aliens

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Michael Irving

Our first encounter with extraterrestrial life isn’t likely to be a spaceship landing on the White House lawn, but tiny fossils in the rocks of another planet. To aid in that search, scientists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa have developed a port… Continue reading BioFinder detects organic molecules in fossils, could help find aliens→

Scientists spot first known fossilized dinosaur “belly button”

Posted on June 8, 2022 by Ben Coxworth

In drawings or renderings of dinosaurs, we generally don’t see the beasts sporting human-like belly buttons. The reptiles did have an equivalent to a navel, however, and scientists have recently discovered the first known fossilized example of one.Cont… Continue reading Scientists spot first known fossilized dinosaur “belly button”→

Were dinosaurs warm- or cold-blooded? Clues lie in their breath and bones

Posted on May 26, 2022 by Michael Irving

Dinosaurs sit at the crossroads between reptiles and birds, leading scientists to debate whether they were warm- or cold-blooded. A new study may have found the answer for different groups of dinosaurs, by analyzing metabolic markers from their breath … Continue reading Were dinosaurs warm- or cold-blooded? Clues lie in their breath and bones→

Megaraptor: Largest known raptor dinosaur uncovered in South America

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Michael Irving

An artist's illustration of how the newly discovered large megaraptor Maip macrothorax might have looked in life

Paleontologists have discovered the largest raptor dinosaur ever found. The new species, known as Maip macrothorax, was a super predator of the megaraptor family that stalked the forests of Argentina some 70 million years ago.

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Tags: Dinosaurs, Fossils, World’s Largest, Patagonia, Bones

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Meet Horridus, the world’s best-preserved and most complete Triceratops

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Michael Irving

T-rex is hacky. Velociraptors are just exaggerated movie monsters. And Brachiosaurus is pretty much just “kind of a big cow.” No, the most discerning of dinosaur-obsessed kids always knew that Triceratops was the coolest. And now, the coolest specimen … Continue reading Meet Horridus, the world’s best-preserved and most complete Triceratops→

Cold waters may have produced the largest megalodon sharks

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Ben Coxworth

Although it’s not a hard and fast rule, marine animals that live in cold climates tend to grow larger than their warm-water counterparts. According to a new study, such may have even been the case with everyone’s favorite prehistoric shark, the megalod… Continue reading Cold waters may have produced the largest megalodon sharks→

Tyrannosaurus rex could be three distinct species, study claims

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Michael Irving

Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the few dinosaurs that has its full scientific name in wide use, largely because that name is so cool. But now we might have a few others to learn, as analysis of known fossils reveals that T-rex might actually be three sepa… Continue reading Tyrannosaurus rex could be three distinct species, study claims→

Study suggests megalodon may not have looked like a huge great white

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Ben Coxworth

In most depictions of the extinct megalodon shark, it looks pretty much like a super-sized version of its modern relative, the great white. According to a new study, however, it may actually have been considerably less similar in appearance.Continue Re… Continue reading Study suggests megalodon may not have looked like a huge great white→