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Dinosaur embryo find helps crack baby tyrannosaur mystery
They are among the largest predators ever to walk the Earth, but experts have discovered that some baby tyrannosaurs were only the size of a border collie dog when they took their first steps.
View ArticleNew light shed on behavior of giant carnivorous dinosaur Spinosaurus
New research has reignited the debate around the behavior of the giant dinosaur Spinosaurus.
View ArticleHow rocks rusted on Earth and turned red
How did rocks rust on Earth and turn red? A new study has shed new light on the important phenomenon and will help address questions about the Late Triassic climate more than 200 million years ago,...
View ArticleDid teenage 'tyrants' outcompete other dinosaurs?
Paleo-ecologists have demonstrated that the offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have fundamentally re-shaped their communities by out-competing smaller rival...
View ArticlePrehistoric killing machine exposed
3D imaging of the dinocephalian, Anteosaurus, shows that this massive premammalian reptile that grew to the size of a full-grown hippopotamus, was a highly agile killing machine, and not a slow stodgy...
View ArticleYounger Tyrannosaurus Rex bites were less ferocious than their adult...
By closely examining the jaw mechanics of juvenile and adult tyrannosaurids, some of the fiercest dinosaurs to inhabit earth, scientists have uncovered differences in how they bit into their prey.
View ArticleThe 'one who causes fear' - new meat-eating predator discovered
Superbly preserved braincase of this new species is an important find - it suggests there was a greater diversity and abundance of abelisaurids late in dinosaurs' era than previously thought.
View ArticleHow many T. rexes were there? Billions
With fossils few and far between, paleontologists have shied away from estimating the size of extinct populations. But scientists decided to try, focusing on the North American predator T. rex. Using...
View ArticleFearsome tyrannosaurs were social animals, study shows
The fearsome tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as popularly envisioned, but social carnivores with complex hunting strategies like wolves.
View ArticleFat-footed tyrannosaur parents could not keep up with their skinnier...
New research suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs were slenderer and relatively faster for their body size compared to their multi-ton parents.
View ArticleYoung T. rexes had a powerful bite, capable of exerting one-sixth the force...
Scientists have experimentally measured the bite force of adult T. rexes but not of younger tyrannosaurs. Fossils with juvenile bite marks have now allowed experts to experimentally test how hard...
View ArticleWhen tyrannosaurs dominated, medium-sized predators disappeared
A new study shows that medium-sized predators all but disappeared late in dinosaur history wherever Tyrannosaurus rex and its close relatives rose to dominance. In those areas -- lands that eventually...
View ArticleFootprints discovered from the last dinosaurs to walk on UK soil
Footprints from at least six different species of dinosaur -- thought to be the very last dinosaurs to walk on UK soil 110 million years ago -- have been found in Kent.
View ArticleBird brains left other dinosaurs behind
Research on a newly discovered bird fossil found that a unique brain shape may be why the ancestors of living birds survived the mass extinction that claimed all other known dinosaurs.
View ArticleStudy of tyrannosaur braincases shows more variation than previously thought
Scientists have used CT scans to digitally reconstruct the brain, inner ear, and surrounding bones (known as the braincase) of two well-preserved Daspletosaurus specimens. This massive tyrannosaur...
View ArticleTyrannosaurus rex’s jaw had sensors to make it an even more fearsome predator
Tyrannosaurus rex was not just a huge beast with a big bite, it had nerve sensors in the very tips of its jaw enabling it to better detect -- and eat -- its prey, a new study finds.
View ArticleFossils illuminate dinosaur evolution in eastern North America
Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome predator that once roamed what is now western North America, appears to have had an East Coast cousin. A new study describes two dinosaurs that inhabited Appalachia -- a...
View ArticleNewly identified mosasaur was fish-hunting monster
Researchers have identified a new species of mosasaur -- an 18-foot-long fish-eating monster that lived 80 million years ago.
View ArticleWho was king before Tyrannosaurus? Uzbek fossil reveals new top dino
A new dinosaur from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Uzbekistan, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, was described from a single maxilla fossil. The research team estimated that this carcharodontosaurian...
View ArticleAncient teeth reveal surprising diversity of Cretaceous reptiles at Argentina...
Where skeletons are rare, isolated teeth can flesh out our understanding of ancient reptile-dominated ecosystems, according to a new study.
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