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Gus the T rex fetches record US$50.1 million at US auction
7+ hour, 3+ min ago (169+ words) CNA Gus the T rex fetches record US$50.1 million at US auction The sale of the 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton broke the record for the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold. NEW YORK: A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed Gus sold…...
Chinese Velociraptor cousin had a taste for birds
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (704+ words) The newly identified dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacking the bird Gansus yumenensis in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern China approximately 120 million years ago. (Image: Reuters/Lewis LaRosa, Jao Canola) WASHINGTON: About 120 million years ago in what is…...
Genome study shows what made the extinct Ice Age cave lion unique
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (578+ words) June 4: The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swathe of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey - and perhaps even people - before going extinct around…...
Scientists dig up Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur in Thailand
2+ mon, 4+ hour ago (290+ words) Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 27m long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. This was Nagatitan…...
'Cretaceous Kraken' prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (666+ words) WASHINGTON, April 23: The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, new research shows, there existed a creature as close to a real-life Kraken…...
Dinosaur collagen used to create one-of-a-kind handbag
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (346+ words) AMSTERDAM, April 2: Scientists and designers unveiled on Thursday a handbag made with collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils from the U.S. in a unique creation intended to demonstrate the value of laboratory-grown leather. The teal-coloured bag was displayed on a rock…...
Enigmatic Jurassic reptile looks like a mix of snake and lizard
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (589+ words) WASHINGTON:The fossil of a small reptile that inhabited Scotland during the age of dinosaurs 167 million years ago has scientists puzzled. It mixed snake-like traits and lizard-like traits. So was it an early ancestor of snakes or perhaps just an…...
Bones of Contention - Tracking The Dinosaur Black Market
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (126+ words) For decades, Gobi Desert in Mongolia has been a hotbed for dinosaur fossil smuggling. Now, people are pushing back, determined to reclaim their stolen heritage and exposing the trade’s darker players. In July 2024, a Stegosaurus fossil shattered records when it…...
Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage
11+ mon, 1+ day ago (703+ words) Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known member of the genus Homo…...
Biomechanics study shows how T. rex and other dinosaurs fed on prey
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (695+ words) WASHINGTON:Tyrannosaurus subdued prey with raw power, using bone-crushing bite force. But other meat-eating dinosaurs that rivaled T. rex in size used different approaches. Giganotosaurus relied more on slashing and ripping flesh. And the long and narrow snout of Spinosaurus was…...