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Skull of ‘dinosaur from Hell’ discovered with sword jutting from its head
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (509+ words) It was a spine-tingling discovery. "This find was so sudden and amazing, it was really emotional for our team," said study co-author Paul Sereno, a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, Popular Science reported. The…...
Scientists reveal how long a T. Rex dinosaur took to grow to its full size
1+ mon, 1+ hour ago (480+ words) A group of researchers has estimated how long it took'Tyrannosaurus rex'to reach its full size " and the time period is significantly longer than scientists previously believed. The dinosaur is believed to have been Earth's largest land predator. It may have…...
Dinosaur fossils unearthed during parking lot construction at Utah national park
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (287+ words) A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed'dinosaur fossils'at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit Hall after removing asphalt in mid-September, exposing'dinosaur-bearing sandstone, the…...
Dino-mate! Dinosaur’s painful hookups were literally bone-crushing, study shows
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (538+ words) Dinosaurs liked it rough " and the fossils they left behind prove it. Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they literally broke each other's bones, a new study in the journal…...
New species of giant green anaconda discovered in never-before-seen footage
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (517+ words) This is Ecuador's Wild Wild West. Never-before-seen video shows the dramatic moment that scientists encountered a new anaconda species while filming the National Geographic travel series "Pole to Pole with Will Smith." The footage was captured last year, but was…...
Archaeologists uncovered the remains of man who lived 6,000 years ago — and survived a brutal lion encounter
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (466+ words) Archaeologists recently uncovered'the remains of a young man who lived 6,000 years ago " and survived a brutal encounter with a lion. A study published in the February 2026 edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports focuses on a Late Eneolithic…...
Limping dinosaur’s twisted path puzzles paleontologists 150 million years later
1+ mon, 3+ week 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…...
Researchers say monstrous shark ruled ancient seas before megalodon
2+ mon, 6+ 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…...
Mystery owner of 3-million-year-old fossilized foot in Africa ID’d: study
2+ mon, 3+ week 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…...
‘Dueling dinosaurs’ fossil long thought to include young T. rex actually contains different species: scientists
3+ mon, 2+ 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…...