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Teeth find shows meat-eating dinosaurs roamed East Sussex 135 million yeas ago

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The discovery of sets of prehistoric teeth has revealed that groups …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Amateur dinosaur hunter finds evidence that T.Rex's COUSIN roamed East Sussex 135 million years ago

Daily Mail

Steven Spielberg might have set Jurassic Park off the coast of Costa Rica, but a new discovery shows that England's south coast would have been just as likely a location. One of the teeth is 5cm long, serrated like a steak knife and is believed to have belonged to a horse-size relative of the T-Rex which lived 135 million years …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Fossil dung reveals clues to the rise of dinosaurs

The Hindu

An international collaboration has been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilised faeces of dinosaurs, which helped reconstruct the rise of the dinosaurs to become the dominant players in Earth’s ancient ecosystems. The analyses of hundreds of samples provide clues about the role dinosaurs played in the ecosystem around 200 million years ago. The researchers …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Dinosaur poop reveals how they rose and dominated Earth

India Today

A new research has shed light on how dinosaurs rose to dominance during the Triassic Period, a time when they were initially overshadowed by other reptiles. Dinosaurs first appeared around 230 million years ago, coexisting with large crocodile relatives and massive herbivores. We analyzed feeding evidence to deduce the ecological role of dinosaurs across their first 30 million years of …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Huge study of fossilised dinosaur poo reveals how beasts came to rule the earth

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery This undated photo provided by Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki shows fossilised plant-eating dinosaur …

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Fossilized dinosaur feces and vomit help scientists reconstruct the creatures' rise

Hindustan Times

NEW YORK — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago. But they came away knowing this: “It was not a sudden thing,” said study co-author Martin Qvarnström from Uppsala University. The new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, analyzed hundreds of dino droppings to …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Fossilized dinosaur feces and vomit help scientists reconstruct the creatures’ rise

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago. Since the study’s findings were limited to Polish fossils, Qvarnström said he’d like to see if their ideas hold steady against fossil records from around the world. It’s not uncommon for scientists to study ancient …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Dinosaur dung study reveals how giant beasts came to dominate planet

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Researchers found undigested remains of food, plants and prey, in the samples of fossilised faeces, …

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Fossilized poop reveals secrets of how dinosaurs came to dominate Earth

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when they first evolved around 230 million years ago. Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki Revelations from ancient poop In some cases, it was possible to make a visual assessment of what type of dinosaur was responsible for a …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Over 500 fossilized poops show how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth

NPR

Over 500 fossilized poops show how dinosaurs came to rule the Earth toggle caption Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. "The first dinosaur ancestors were opportunistic," says Martin Qvarnström, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, who led the study. "We know a lot about the life and extinction of the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Scientists discover new species of titanosaur that dates back to 75 million years ago

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The sauropod was nearly 50 feet long, according to Portuguese paleontologist Pedro Mocho Alive during …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Matching sets of dinosaur footprints found thousands of miles apart

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart, according to new research. “One of the youngest and narrowest geological connections between Africa and South America was the elbow …

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4 months ago

10-year-old’s curiosity leads to discovery of ancient dinosaur footprints on a beach

Hindustan Times

When roaming on the beach, many of us have a habit of picking up shells and stones. However, her curiosity actually led to the discovery of five huge footprints that experts believe belonged to a Camelotia dinosaur that lived there more than 200 million years ago. The massive footprints Tegan found are thought to have been formed 200 million years …

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5 months ago

A newly discovered dinosaur may have spent part of its life underground

NPR

A newly discovered dinosaur may have spent part of its life underground toggle caption Jorge Gonzalez A new dinosaur discovery just hit the paleontology block — and this one was a burrower. Found in Utah by North Carolina State University researchers and paleontologists, the Fona herzogae was a small-framed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the Cenomanian age — about 100-66 …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Gnatalie is the only green-boned dinosaur found on the planet. She will be on display in LA

Hindustan Times

LOS ANGELES — The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is not only a member of a new species — it's also the only one found on the planet whose bones are green, according to museum officials. HT Image Named “Gnatalie” for the gnats that swarmed during the excavation, the long-necked, long-tailed herbivorous dinosaur's …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

An Arizona museum tells the stories of ancient animals through their fossilized poop

Associated Press

WILLIAMS, Ariz. — One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop. President and curator George Frandsen stands for a photograph inside his “Poozeum”, Friday, June 7, 2024 in Williams, Ariz. President and curator George Frandsen stands for a photograph inside his “Poozeum”, Friday, June 7, 2024 in Williams, Ariz. Share Share …

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6 months ago

Flamboyant dinosaur with elaborate orange horns hailed as a 'sexy beast' by researchers is discovered in the ancient swamps of Montana

Daily Mail

What connects flamboyant dressing, the Norse god Loki and ancient reptiles? Surprisingly, scientists say the answer is a newly discovered horned dinosaur that roamed the swamps of Montana 78 million years ago. Lokiceratops rangiformis – which loosely means 'Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou’ – sported some of the biggest and most flamboyant horns of any dinosaur. Scientists …

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6 months, 1 week ago

You can help name L.A.’s newest dinosaur fossil. Just don’t call it Dino McDinoface

LA Times

A rendering of the new dinosaur display at the Natural History Museum. How to vote Online poll is open to name Natural History Museum dinosaur fossil The voting is open until Thursday, June 20. “We want the people of Los Angeles to feel that this completely unique green giant is theirs, because it is,” said Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Archaeologists uncover ancient skeletons they believe could be up to 1500 years old

The Independent

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10 months, 1 week ago

The very first dinosaur was named 200 years ago – just don’t call it a lizard

The Independent

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1 year ago

Teen tyrannosaur had a taste for baby dinos, rare fossil reveals

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. T. rex is the biggest of the tyrannosaurs, Gorgosaurus was a little bit smaller, maybe full grown would have been 9, 10 meters.” Darla Zelenitsky, an associate professor at the University of Calgary, and François Therrien, curator of dinosaur paleoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, stand next to the young …

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1 year, 3 months ago

'Insipid nonsense': Creationists battle over the existence of dinosaurs

Raw Story

On September 3rd, 2023, right-wing conspiracy theorist Allie Beth Stuckey interviewed creationist Ken Ham on her Relatable podcast about dinosaurs a year after she claimed that the extinct creatures never existed. Ham is the founder of Answers in Genesis and the brains behind Kentucky's Creation Museum, which depicts humans riding dinosaurs and asserts that Earth is only six thousand years …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Ancient reptile was riddled with parasites, fossilized poop reveals

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “Our results give us new ways to think about the environment and way of life of old animals,” said lead study author Thanit Nonsrirach, a vertebrate paleontologist in the department of biology at Mahasarakham University in Kham Riang, Thailand. However, “it’s plausible that the coprolite originated from an animal similar to crocodiles …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Small mammals may have hunted dinosaurs for food, a new study says

Hindustan Times

A fossil discovery suggests that mammals may have preyed on dinosaurs several times their size, according to a new study published Tuesday. Scientific Reports, the journal that published the study, said the fossil showed two creatures — a mammal and a dinosaur — from around 125 millions years ago, during the Cretaceous period. Even though the mammal is much smaller, …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Has T. rex lost its bite? That menacing movie snarl may be all wrong

LA Times

The teeth on Tyrannosaurus rex and other big theropods were probably covered by scaly lips and hardly showed at all, a study says. The Tyrannosaurus rex is often shown baring massive, sharp teeth, like the ferocious creature in “Jurassic Park.” But new research suggests that this classic image might be wrong. The teeth on T. rex and other big theropods …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Study finds how dinosaurs' bones evolved to make them such giants

Hindustan Times

Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like present-day birds, dinosaurs had hollow bones with inner structures known as air sacs, which made their skeletons lighter and less dense. "Less dense bones containing more air gave the dinosaurs and pterosaurs more oxygen circulating in their blood, …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Massive dinosaur footprint - over three feet long - found in UK's Yorkshire

Hindustan Times

A major paleontological find in the county of Yorkshire in the United Kingdom has sparked excitement among scientists worldwide - a nearly metre-long footprint of a large dinosaur that emerged in Burniston Bay near the town of Scarborough, on what is referred to as the UK's 'dinosaur coast'. The footprint was found by local researcher Marie Woods in April 2021. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Rare dinosaur fossil discovery in Central India

Hindustan Times

At least 250 fossilised eggs and over 90 nesting sites of the dinosaur titanosaurus, dating back about 67 million years, have been discovered in central India by scientists from the Delhi University, according to experts involved in the excavation. The team of scientists, led by Delhi University’s Harsha Dhiman, found a hatchery of 256 eggs and 92 nests of titanosaurs …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Clutch of over 250 fossilised eggs unearthed in India suggests dinosaurs may have nested together like birds

The Independent

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1 year, 11 months ago

Dutch museum may have discovered rare dinosaur embryo

Dutch News

The prehistory Oertijdmuseum in Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, may hold one of the very few dinosaur eggs that contain the remains of an embryo, a CT scan has shown. The paperwork for the scans of some 30 of the museum’s 182 70 million-year-old eggs, carried out at the Jeroen Bosch hospital in Den Bosch, took about a year to organise, museum curator …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Dutch museum may have discovered rare dinosaur embryo

Dutch News

The prehistory Oertijdmuseum in Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, may hold one of the very few dinosaur eggs that contain the remains of an embryo, a CT scan has shown. The paperwork for the scans of some 30 of the museum’s 182 70 million-year-old eggs, carried out at the Jeroen Bosch hospital in Den Bosch, took about a year to organise, museum curator …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Body of a bird, skull of a dinosaur: This discovery has left researchers baffled

India Today

A new fossil from China has left scientists amazed at the evolutionary journey of birds, who are believed to be descendants of dinosaurs. Named Cratonavis Zhui, the fossil has an elongated scapula and first metatarsal, making it stand out from all other birds, including fossil ones. The new find indicates a dramatic transformation morphologically, functionally, and ecologically that gave rise …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Dinosaur fossil found with perfectly preserved last meal inside unveils unique predator

India Today

They once flew in the skies of modern-day China, before they went extinct, but the discovery of their fossils has revealed that the creature, a dinosaur, was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ecosystem of dinosaurs. Researchers found a complete mammal foot inside the rib cage of the small, feathered dinosaur, making it the 21st such discovery. The findings of …

Dinosaur Mammal Perfectly Preserved Meal Inside

2 years ago

Mystery Nevada fossil site could be ancient maternity ward

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for dozens of giant marine reptiles. “Several lines of evidence all kind of point towards one argument here: That this was a place where giant ichthyosaurs came to give birth,” said co-author Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian National …

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2 years ago

The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard

Wired

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. “There are sites with way more dense occurrences of ichthyosaur skeletons, including places in Chile and Germany,” says Nick Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. “But this place, Berlin-Ichthyosaur in eastern Nevada, has really escaped explanation for a long time.” In one particular quarry, …

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2 years ago

100 million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton discovery ‘could hold the key’ to prehistoric research

CNN

CNN — The discovery of a giant 100 million-year-old marine reptile’s skeleton in Australia has been hailed by researchers as a breakthrough that may provide vital clues about prehistoric life. “We have never found a body and a head together and this could hold the key to future research in this field,” Knutsen said in a statement Wednesday that confirmed …

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2 years ago

Dinosaur larger than T. rex couldn’t swim well despite large fish being on the menu

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “This is simply not an animal that in your wildest dreams would be dynamic above water as a swimmer much less underwater.” A tricky path Spinosaurus has long intrigued scientists. “No fully aquatic animals, conversely, has forelimbs as proportionately large as Spinosaurus, as the front limbs are very inefficient as paddles.” Its …

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2 years, 1 month ago

A priceless fossil destroyed in WWII has resurfaced in an unusual way

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “The original fossil was highly significant in being the very first complete skeleton of any prehistoric reptile fossil ever found at the time,” said Dr. Dean Lomax, paleontologist and visiting scientist at the University of Manchester. “Peabody curatorial staff assumed that the specimen was a real ichthyosaur fossil and not a plaster …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Mummified dinosaur’s skin was gnashed by ancient crocs

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Skin decays much more easily than bone so it’s extremely rare to find fossilized dinosaur skin. North Dakota Geological Survey The hadrosaur’s skin, however, has provided a lot of information about the size and patterns of scales across the dinosaur’s body as well as the amount of muscle mass – based on …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Fossil could be rare complete dinosaur skeleton

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A dinosaur fossil discovered in Canada could be a rare complete …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Bones, sweat and years: What it takes to dig up a dinosaur

LA Times

Paleontologist Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, removes dust from a stegosaurus fossil near Bitter Creek, Utah. “Like the way I like to sip a good wine.” Paleontologist Fernando Escaso describes stegosaurus fossils found near Bitter Creek, Utah. A paleontology crew from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County …

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2 years, 5 months ago

The mystery of how dinosaurs had sex

BBC

The mystery of how dinosaurs had sex Alamy The sordid details of how dinosaurs got it on have long eluded scientists. "So you can see, if you look underneath here – there's lots of pigment," says Vinther. Getty Images Some experts think Spinosaurus simply used its sail as a swimming aid – but it might also have been used for …

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2 years, 6 months ago

‘Abnormal’ dinosaur egg in India digs up new questions for evolution

The Hindu

A team of researchers from the University of Delhi has discovered a unique set of fossilised dinosaur eggs, with one egg nesting within the other at the Dinosaur Fossil National Park, in Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh. The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, talk about the ‘egg-in-egg’ phenomenon in a titanosaurid dinosaur egg found from the Bagh area …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Bizarre 'bulldog-faced' dinosaur is unearthed in Egypt

Daily Mail

A bizarre-looking dinosaur with tiny arms and a squashy face like a bulldog has been unearthed in Egypt, scientists reveal. The meat-eating species had small teeth, tiny arms and a squashed face like a bulldog The abelisaurid neck vertebra bone, approximately 98 million years old, as it was found in the field in the Bahariya Oasis This vertebra bone was …

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2 years, 8 months ago

'Beyond our wildest dreams': Scientists find fossil from dinosaur that died the day the asteroid hit

Raw Story

Scientists believe they have discovered a fossilized time capsule from the exact day when Earth transformed from being a verdant, dinosaur-ridden world to a soot-covered apocalyptic hellscape. The discovery, which was made at the Tanis dig site in North Dakota, will be discussed in more detail in a BBC documentary narrated by David Attenborough titled "Dinosaurs: The Final Day." "The …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Fossils of dinosaur killed on the day of asteroid strike found, hold clues to moments after impact

India Today

What happened in the moments before and after the fateful day, 65 million years ago, when an asteroid roughly 10 kilometers wide hit Earth and wiped dinosaurs off the surface of Earth. The fossil has been dated to the day when the asteroid hit Earth resulting in a new evolutionary process, after causing the extinction of the dinosaur species. Phillip …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Tyrannosaurus Rex doesn’t deserve quite so much attention.

Slate

Dinosaurs aren’t immune to popularity contests. When just the legs and hips of that original T. rex were put on display at the American Museum of Natural History the New York Times declared that these disembodied limbs clearly represented “the prize-fighter of antiquity.” Osborn’s Upper West Side institution did even better in 1915. Even with legal sales, such as the …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Scientists discover skull of new unusual ‘armless’ dinosaur species in Argentina

The Independent

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2 years, 10 months ago

Massive ancient ‘killer’ croc discovered with remains of partially digested baby dinosaur in its stomach

The Independent

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Crocodile Croc Baby Dinosaur

2 years, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: An exquisite fossil’s lessons for hard times

LA Times

The fossil takes us back to deep time, and reframes our view of the concerns and conflicts of today. Just before Christmas, the journal iScience reported the discovery of a “late Cretaceous oviraptorid theropod dinosaur embryo … preserved in-ovo” — that is, a fully articulated dinosaur skeleton, fossilized inside its egg. “The head,” the authors of the study wrote, “lies …

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