Photo shows a male mosquito fossil that sucked dinosaur blood 130 years ago and it was found near Hammana, Lebanon, undated. The fossil proved that also the male mosquitoes could suck blood back then. (Chinese Academy of Sciences/AsiaWire)

130-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Male Mosquitoes Could Have Been Blood-Suckers, Too

• Post author:Simona Kitanovska
• Post published:December 17, 2023

A new study led by expert palaeontologists has revealed that male mosquitoes also used to suck blood back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and only later moved to a diet…

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Picture shows Pachykrokolithus excavatum shell fragments, undated. They were found in found in La Ribagorza, Spain, dated within the 250,000 years of the Cretaceous period, close to the extinction of the dinosaurs. (Manuel Perez Pueyo/Newsflash)

Palaeontologists Discover New Crocodile Species With Thickest Eggs Ever That Lived With Last Dinosaurs

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:September 6, 2022

Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of crocodile that lived with the last dinosaurs and that laid the thickest eggs on record. The group of palaeontologists from the University of…

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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

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:June 27, 2022

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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Life restoration of the dolphins described in this study: Kentriodon in the foreground, in the background a squalodelphinid (left) and a physeterid (right) chasing a group of eurhinodelphinids. (Jaime Chirinos/Newsflash)

Boffins Find Two New Prehistoric Dolphin Species – In Swiss Alps

• Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
• Post published:June 2, 2022

Scientists in Switzerland have discovered two previously unknown dolphin species that inhabited the area of today’s landlocked mountainous country 20 million years ago. Palaeontologists at the University of Zurich said…

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Hadrosaurus Embryo from the Upper Cretaceous Hekou Formation found in Ganzhou Basin, Jiangxi Province, China. (Fujian Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum/AsiaWire)

Baby Dinosaurs Found Inside Eggs Give New Clues To Evolution

• Post author:Emily Wu
• Post published:May 31, 2022

The most complete embryos belonging to a duckbilled herbivorous dinosaur ever found have been unearthed by palaeontologists in China. The scientists - who published their findings in the journal BMC…

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Artist’s reconstruction of the feathered pterosaur Tupandactylus, showing the feather types along the bottom of the headcrest: dark monofilaments and lighter-coloured branched feathers. (Bob Nicholls 2022/Newsflash)

Incredible Pterosaur Fossil Proves Once And For All That Flying Dinosaurs Had Feathers – Not Fur

• Post author:Sofija Dizdarevik
• Post published:May 7, 2022

One of the great unsolved mysteries about dinosaurs as to whether flying pterosaurs had feathers or fur has been solved after the discovery of a remarkable prehistoric fossil that can…

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Loligo vulgaris (pictured), one of the 10,000 unique fossils from the Alpine Triassic period that were examined from a team of researchers from the Natural History Museum Vienna and the University of Vienna. (NHM Vienna, Alexander Lukeneder/Newsflash)

Austrian Scientists Find Worlds First Proof Of Fossilised Squid Cartilage Using Home Office To Work In

• Post author:Thomas Hochwarter
• Post published:May 3, 2022

A team of experts and science enthusiasts led by a married couple of palaeontologists who managed to keep working by turning their home into a science lab have discovered the…

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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

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:January 24, 2022

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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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

• Post author:William McGee
• Post published:December 20, 2021

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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The first extracted titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg near Huesca in northern Spain. (Universidad de Zaragoza/Newsflash)

Archaeologists Extract 30 Titanosaur Dinosaur Eggs From Huge Block Of Rock And Expect To Find 70 More

• Post author:Lee Bullen
• Post published:November 3, 2021

Archaeologists have extracted 30 titanosaur dinosaur eggs found in a two-tonne block of rock in northern Spain and believe there could be as many as 70 more deeper inside the…

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