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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2025, From Preserved Blood Vessels to the Return of a Short King
With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...
The largest predatory dinosaur to ever walk on Earth sported a massive sail that rose from its back, but it turns out this imposing creature would have made for a very slow and awkward swimmer, ...
Scientists have identified a new species of dinosaur on the so-called "dinosaur island" off the coast of England, known for discoveries of fossilized dinosaurs and other remains. The new species is ...
Dinosaurs may be long extinct, but 2025 made it abundantly clear that they’re anything but settled science. Over the past ...
Researchers in Spain have identified a new spinosaurus species that walked on two legs, feasted on fish and measured between 32 and 36 feet when it was alive. The researchers who named the newest ...
You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...
London — The fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur have been discovered in the United Kingdom. Fossils of the species, named Vectipelta barretti, were discovered on the Isle ...
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Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand. An illustration shows what Duonychus tsogtbaatari might have looked like. Unlike its ...
Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, ...
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