4+ hour, 38+ min ago   (216+ words) URUMQI - A science museum focused on pterosaurs, a winged reptile closely related to dinosaurs, opened on Sunday in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China. The world's first of its kind, this museum is located in a national geopark in…...

4+ hour, 38+ min ago   (216+ words) URUMQI - A science museum focused on pterosaurs, a winged reptile closely related to dinosaurs, opened on Sunday in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China. The world's first of its kind, this museum is located in a national geopark in…...

11+ hour, 5+ min ago   (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1673+ words) Over the last 25 years, a pair of professors have collected thousands of students' drawings trying to accurately depict a T. rex, but few get it right. Whether Barney, cheap plastic toys, or dinosaur chicken nuggets are to blame, here’s what most…...

5+ day, 21+ min ago   (430+ words) A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below making up northeastern Thailand's "dinosaur rush". Researchers have found a trove of dinosaur fossils across the region, which holds the…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (393+ words) The skeleton of a Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, a herbivorous long-necked sauropod, is now on show at the Thainosaur Museum in Bangkok. At around 27 meters (88 feet) long and weighing 27 tons — as much as nine adult Asian elephants — it's considered the largest dinosaur…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (502+ words) Dorothea Bate was one of the first women employed by the Natural History Museum and made major discoveries that transformed our understanding of prehistoric animals A fossil hunter who was one of the first women to be employed by the…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (190+ words) A new dinosaur fossil from Japan reveals surprising body-size diversity among Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, offering fresh insights into their evolution, biogeography, and coastal ecosystems across ancient East Asia. A new study published in the journal Paleontological Research has revealed a…...