3+ hour, 59+ min ago  (603+ words) Paleontologists may have uncovered the traces of a dinosaur that may have been limping, thanks to'fossilized footprints'preserved in stone for over 150 million years. In a Nov. 25 press release from the University of Queensland (UQ), Australian officials announced that the discovery…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (640+ words) In the age of dinosaurs " before whales, great whites or the bus-sized'megalodon" a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period. Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach near…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (415+ words) A strange fossilized foot unearthed in Ethiopia over a decade ago may finally have an identity, according to scientists. A new study argues that the 3.4 million-year-old "Burtele foot," discovered in 2009, belonged to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a controversial human relative that lived…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (424+ words) Two dinosaurs fossilized in combat, originally thought to involve a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex testing its mettle against a Triceratops, actually features a separate species frequently confused with the carnivore, scientists revealed Thursday. The "dueling dinosaurs" fossil was first unearthed in…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (386+ words) NEW YORK " Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These'dinosaur remains'are different from the'wrapped mummies of Egypt'or natural human mummies that get accidentally preserved in bogs or deserts....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (411+ words) Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago,causing mass extinction. New research suggestsdinosaur populationswere still thriving in North America before theasteroid strike, but it's only one piece of the…...

2+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (465+ words) It was in egg-cellent condition. Argentine paleontologists found a real diamond in the rough after happening across a perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg during an excavation. "It was a complete and utter surprise," Gonzalo Leonel Mu'oz, a Vertebrate paleontologist at…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (344+ words) A fossil unearthed along the coast of England was identified as a new species of a renowned "sword dragon" reptile that dominated the sea during the Jurassic Period. The nearly complete ichthyosaur fossil was dubbed the Xiphodracon goldencapensis, formally translating…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (402+ words) Turns out Toby's new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter's 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to paleontologists. The fossils unearthed by the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience feature…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (233+ words) Scientists have discovered a new "apex predator" dinosaur that appears to have been fossilized right in the middle of eating a crocodile-like creature. The newly found Joaquinraptor casali was a 23-foot megaraptoran found in Argentina who had his final meal…...