Collaborate Disseminate
Tyrannosaurs were pretty capable killers, and it’s easy to assume they didn’t need much help bringing down their prey. But contrary to the popular image of these fearsome predators being lone hunters, new analysis of a mass grave site adds to evidence … Continue reading Mass grave suggests tyrannosaurs were pack hunters
While dinosaurs roamed the Earth, flying reptiles called pterosaurs ruled the skies above. These included the largest animals to ever take flight, and a new study has uncovered some of the biological secrets that helped them grow so large. CT scans hav… Continue reading Bizarre bones helped giant pterosaurs straighten up and fly light
A new study published in the journal Nature is describing the extraction and sequencing of the oldest known sample of DNA. The sample comes from an ancient species of mammoth found in the Siberian permafrost and dates back nearly 1.2 million years.
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Tags: DNA, Paleontology, History, Evolution, Wooly mammoth, Dinosaurs, World’s Oldest
Continue reading Million-year-old mammoth DNA smashes record for world’s oldest
Fossilized tree resin, commonly known as amber, has offered paleontologists extraordinary insights into ancient ecosystems. The latest golden time capsule discovery comes from Oregon State University researchers who have identified a completely new, pr… Continue reading “Amazing” new species of flower discovered in 100-million-year-old amber
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
You can learn a lot about someone by the way they walk – and apparently that even applies after 10,000 years. In New Mexico, researchers have discovered what they claim is the longest known set of fossilized human footprints, stretching over 1.5 km (0…. Continue reading Ice Age footprints tell incredible story of mother and child’s journey
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
Earlier this year, paleontologists proved Jurassic Park wrong yet again by discovering that the superpredator Spinosaurus was the first water-dwelling dinosaur. Now some of the same team has found further evidence, with a huge deposit of teeth recovere… Continue reading Huge cache of teeth seal Spinosaurus as a swimming dinosaur
One of the largest, most complete and most famous Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons is about to go under the hammer. The dinosaur, nicknamed “Stan,” has been on display in the Black Hills Institute for decades, but will now be auctioned off by Christie’s to whoever has a spare few million dollars and a T-rex-sized space on hand.
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Tags: Dinosaurs, Fossils, Auction, Christie’s, Bones, Paleontology
Continue reading For sale: Huge T-rex skeleton, almost complete, some battle damage