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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...