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Palaeontology
The Giant Carnivorous Dinosaurs of Australia
Each continent had a major predatory dinosaur, in North America, it was the T-Rex, in Africa the Spinosaurus.
Palaeontology
New fossil discovery shows 50 million-year-old Canada-Australia connection
The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate and shifting continents across deep time.
Palaeontology
Crocodiles Used to Walk Like Dinosaurs
Palaeontologists from the University of Queensland have discovered that some ancient species of crocodiles walked on their hind legs like dinosaurs.
Palaeontology
Western Canadian scientists discover what an armoured dinosaur ate for its last meal
More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram, armour-plated dinosaur ate its last meal, died, and was washed out to sea in what is now northern Alberta.
Palaeontology
Chinese pterodactyl wings its way to the United Kingdom
The first ever specimen of a pterodactyl, more commonly found in China and Brazil, has been found in the United Kingdom.
Palaeontology
In stressed ecosystems Jurassic dinosaurs turned to scavenging, maybe even cannibalism
Among dinosaurs of ancient Colorado, scavenging and possibly cannibalism were responses to a resource-scarce environment, according to a study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Stephanie Drumheller of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and colleagues.
Palaeontology
Finding a genus home for Alaska’s dinosaurs
A re-analysis of dinosaur skulls from northern Alaska suggests they belong to a genus that lived over a broad latitudinal range extending into the Arctic.
Palaeontology
Ancient Great White Shark Fossil Nursury Discovered
Paleo-kindergarten ensured evolutionary success millions of years ago for the great white shark, one of the most charismatic, but also one of the most infamous sharks.
Palaeontology
Titanichthys, a giant armored fish was a Suspension Feeder
Titanichthys roamed the seas and oceans during the Dovonian period 380 million years ago.
Palaeontology
Extinct sea reptile swam in seas from England to Russia to the Arctic according to Baylor University researcher
A paleontologist visiting London's Natural History Museum took a picture of an extinct aquatic reptile with selfie stick.
Palaeontology
Tyrannosaurus leg length was built for efficiency, not speed
Research finds leg length gave giant predatory dinosaurs the advantage of efficiency, not speed as previously thought.
Palaeontology
Arctic Edmontosaurus lives again — a new look at the ‘caribou of the Cretaceous’
A new study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and Hokkaido University and Okayama University of Science in Japan further explores the proliferation of the most commonly occurring duck-billed dinosaur of the ancient Arctic as the genus Edmontosaurus.
