Tagged: dinosaur

Some 66 million years ago, on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, a 12 kilometer-wide (7.5 mile-wide) asteroid crashes to Earth. The impact causes an explosion whose magnitude is hard to imagine today: several billion times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Most...

A TERRIFIED home owner claims a mystery creature filmed skulking across her yard in Florida could be a baby dinosaur. Cristina Ryan shared her eerie home security footage which appears to show an animal with a thick tail running upright on two legs. The reptilian...

Llukalkan aliocranianus has a fittingly frightening name. There’s a tradition of giving dinosaurs badass names. “Tyrannosaurus rex” means “king of the tyrant lizards.” In 2020, scientists named a new species “reaper of death.” Now say hello to the “one who causes fear,” a toothy dinosaur...

A new study suggests the eggs of early dinosaurs were soft-shelled, going against popular belief. The study, published in Nature, notes that the first dinosaur eggs were soft-shelled as opposed to hard-shelled, similar to the modern-day turtle. “The assumption has always been that the ancestral...

The industrious, poop-grubbing dung beetles might not have a fancy job, but it turns out they evolved eating the rarified poop of the dinosaurs. Around 6,000 members of the Scarabaeidae family can be found on every continent except Antarctica, and a new study suggests they...

Scientists have identified a new type of horned dinosaur with a uniquely decorated neck frill. According to an article in the journal PLOS One, Spiclypeus shipporum lived approximately 76 million years ago in what’s the present-day state of Montana in the United States. The fossils...

Among paleontologists, the feather is a sticky subject. General opinion holds that birds, and their flight-ready feathers, evolved from feathered, land-based dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs had feathers millions of years before they started flying, suggesting feathers didn’t evolve for flight. What purpose feathers served and where...

A new study suggests the eggs of early dinosaurs were soft-shelled, going against popular belief. The study, published in Nature, notes that the first dinosaur eggs were soft-shelled as opposed to hard-shelled, similar to the modern-day turtle. “The assumption has always been that the ancestral...

The discovery of huge prehistoric footprints has shed new light on what has been described as Australia’s “Jurassic Park”. Experts at the University of Queensland, led by paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio, studied dinosaur footprint fossils in Southern Queensland that were dated to between 165 million...

A type of cancer that still afflicts humans has been found in a dinosaur fossil that was unearthed in Canada, according to experts. The fossil, which was found at the Dinosaur Provincial Park in southern Alberta, is of a small hadrosaur that was “common in...