4+ hour, 30+ min ago  (855+ words) A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Gus is expected to become one of the most expensive dinosaur fossils ever sold when it goes up for auction at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday. Valued at up to $30 million, the skeleton could…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (487+ words) A fossilized tail bone collected in Antarctica in 1985 has been confirmed as the first dinosaur fossil ever recovered from the continent, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the (NHM) in London said. The vertebra, identified as belonging to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (457+ words) Paleontologists are rewriting the evolutionary story of raptor-like dinosaurs after two recent fossil discoveries suggested the family that includes Velociraptor spread across much of the ancient supercontinent Pangea before continental drift separated the world's landmasses. The latest discovery comes from…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (568+ words) More than 80 million years ago, a giant marine predator cruised through the ancient inland sea that once split North America in two. Now, scientists say the creature preserved in fossils across Texas was not just another mosasaur, but an entirely…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (424+ words) Egypt's Mansoura University has announced the discovery of a new species of great ape ancestor, a finding that could reshape understanding of early primate evolution and shift the geographic narrative of where great apes originated. The newly discovered species, named…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (839+ words) In the Sahara Desert of Niger, scientists have discovered fossils of a new kind of Spinosaurus, a discovery that can shed new light on one of the largest predators of dinosaurs to have ever lived on Earth. It was named…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (488+ words) Scientists have discovered the skull of a 307-million-year-old creature in Canada's Nova Scotia that is among the oldest known plant-eating vertebrates to have lived on land, offering new insight into a crucial stage of animal evolution. The fossil represents an…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (353+ words) A fossil discovered by a 12-year-old in Beijing has helped close a significant gap in Asia's Middle Jurassic fossil record, with researchers confirming it as the region's first known amphibian footprint from the period. The findings were published last week…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (439+ words) Trying to bring down a fully grown Brachiosaurus would have been a reckless gamble for any predator. Weighing as much as 60 tonnes and towering over most other dinosaurs, the long-necked giant was among the largest land animals ever to walk…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (458+ words) Paleontologists have uncovered the oldest known dinosaur footprints from Chile and the western margin of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, shedding new light on dinosaur life in the Southern Hemisphere during the Late Jurassic period, around 160 million years ago. The discovery…...