Read more about the article Massive Predator Dinosaur Dating Back 125 Million Years Found On Isle Of Wight
An illustration of White Rock spinosaurid by Anthony Hutchings. (UoS, A Hutchings/Newsflash)

Massive Predator Dinosaur Dating Back 125 Million Years Found On Isle Of Wight

Experts in the UK have discovered what could well be Europe's biggest carnivorous dinosaur and largest land predator dating back 125 million years on the Isle of Wight. Palaeontologists at…

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Read more about the article Prehistoric Birds Perferred Bugs To Fish Says Study
Reconstruction of Longipteryx feeding on the mayfly Epicharmeropsis hexavenulosus from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Group of Northeastern China. Miller et al. noted that the foot of Longipteryx could grasp in a way similar to living owls, on which this feeding pose is based. (Julius T. Csotonyi/AsiaWire)

Prehistoric Birds Perferred Bugs To Fish Says Study

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Prehistoric dinosaur birds preferred to snack on insects instead of fish, a new study has revealed. It had been believed that the 120 million-year-old Longipterygidae family's long beaks with sharp…

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Read more about the article Dinosaur Extinction Slowed Down Evolution Of New Plants
The large, woody fruits of the Manicaria saccifera palm that depend on large animals for their dispersal. (John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Newsflash)

Dinosaur Extinction Slowed Down Evolution Of New Plants

The extinction of dinosaur had a significant impact on the development of plants, a new study has shown. Experts at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in the…

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Read more about the article Scientists Find Massive Haul Of 80-Million-Year-Old Titanosaur Eggs
CT scans of the best-preserved egg-clutch (CPPLIP 1798). (a) 3D rendering of the bottom of the clutch in CPPLIP 1798. (b) General view of the clutch at the same orientation, showing the external part of the lower hemisphere of the eggs. (c) Top view of the lower egg row, showing the inner part of the lower hemisphere of the eggs. (d) Lateral view of CPPLIP 1798, showing lower egg row with higher shells at both ends and part of the upper egg row. In dark orange, eggshell fragments within the eggs. Note that the incompleteness (“holes”) of some eggs in B and C are due to the lack of the eggshells and/or poor resolution of the CT scan. In A the shape of each egg is maintained due to the sedimentary internal mold. Scale bar 10 cm. (Dr Agustin G. Martinelli/Newsflash)

Scientists Find Massive Haul Of 80-Million-Year-Old Titanosaur Eggs

Scientists have unearthed the first titanosaur nesting site in Brazil after they found about 20 of these massive, 80-million-year-old dinosaur eggs. The dinosaur egg nest, which dates back to the…

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Read more about the article Dinosaur Remains Believed To Be Europes Most Complete Titanosaur Discovered Near Pyrenees
Artistic image of Abditosaurus kuehnei,the new species of dinosaur discovered in Lleida, Spain. (ICP/Newsflash)

Dinosaur Remains Believed To Be Europes Most Complete Titanosaur Discovered Near Pyrenees

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered near the Pyrenees and its fossilised remains have been deemed to be the most complete in Europe. The excavation, which was overseen…

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Read more about the article German And Austrian Palaeontologists Reconstruct Loner Dinosaur That Was Sluggish And Deaf
Life reconstruction of the dinosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus from the Late Cretaceous of Austria. (University of Vienna, Fabrizio De Rossi/Newsflash)

German And Austrian Palaeontologists Reconstruct Loner Dinosaur That Was Sluggish And Deaf

German and Austrian palaeontologists have reconstructed an 80-million-year-old dinosaur that was probably a slow-moving, hard-of-hearing loner. Struthiosaurus austriacus was up to eight metres (26 feet) tall, sluggish, had poor hearing…

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Read more about the article 118 Stone T-Rex Set To Return Home After 66 Million Years
The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex around eleven meters long and four meters high that was built in Upper Bavaria. (@dinopark.bayern/Newsflash)

118 Stone T-Rex Set To Return Home After 66 Million Years

A T-rex that once roamed North America is set to return home after a US millionaire paid German palaeontologists to put it back together for him like a giant jigsaw…

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Read more about the article Archaeologists Discovery Of Seven Dinosaur Fossils Near Italian City Of Trieste Rewrites Prehistory
Adult and two juvenile individuals of the dinosaur Tethyshadros insularis. (Davide Bonadonna/Newsflash)

Archaeologists Discovery Of Seven Dinosaur Fossils Near Italian City Of Trieste Rewrites Prehistory

An international team of archaeologists has discovered seven dinosaur fossils near the Italian port city of Trieste with some of them dating back 80 million years potentially rewriting the current…

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Read more about the article New Species Of Dinosaur With Unique Tail Weapon Resembling Aztec War Weapon Found In Chile
An artist's reconstruction of the appearance of the new species of armoured dinosaur, Stegouros elengassen. (Luis Perez Lopez/Newsflash)

New Species Of Dinosaur With Unique Tail Weapon Resembling Aztec War Weapon Found In Chile

Researchers have found the near-complete skeleton of a new species of dinosaur with a unique weapon resembling an Aztec 'macuahuitl' war club on its tail. The find was made in…

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