7+ hour, 1+ min ago  (696+ words) Prehistoric pigs looked quite different from modern-day pigs. Kubanochoerus is an extinct genus of long-legged pigs that lived during the early to middle Miocene period. Similar animals in today's world include the pygmy hog and the giant forest pig. It…...

18+ hour, 57+ min ago  (420+ words) A newly discovered Spinosaurus species has revealed that the iconic Jurassic Park predator might not have been fully aquatic but more like a "hell heron" that waded through shallower waters. The fossil was unearthed by a team of around 20 researchers…...

22+ hour, 38+ min ago  (824+ words) During a journey that could be the plot of an adventure novel, paleontologists discovered the fossils of a new dinosaur species in the vast Sahara Desert. "It was the expedition of a century, without exaggeration," Paul Sereno, a professor of…...

23+ hour ago  (1464+ words) It was amazing," recalls Vidal, of the University of Chicago. It was like a unicorn." Back in 2022, when he stumbled upon the strange bone, he was part of a team led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno, a paleontologist also…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (353+ words) Researchers in China have identified a new breed of dinosaur covered in hollow, porcupine-like spikes. The creature's existence was discovered by a team of paleontologists led by China's Anhui Geological Museum and the Institute of Natural Sciences in Belgium. According…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (307+ words) Feb 19 (Reuters) - It was not an easy task for a team of dinosaur-hunting scientists to reach the remote site called Jenguebi in northern Niger deep in the Sahara Desert. It was fitting that "the closest locality was named Sirig Taghat,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (761+ words) Feb 19 (Reuters) - At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shaped head crest and jaws bearing interlocking…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (377+ words) A dinosaur's tooth found embedded in the skull remains of another has revealed insights into the final moments of a fight between two giant beasts over 66 million years ago. The skull of the duckbilled plant-eating dinosaur Edmontosaurus was unearthed at…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (864+ words) The skull of Triceratops looks almost exaggerated, as if someone enlarged the front half without adjusting the rest. Paleontologists have long studied its horns and frill, yet the cavernous nasal region remained harder to explain. A new reconstruction suggests that…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (565+ words) In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, believed to have lived about 7 million years ago, roughly…...