dinosaurs

Scientists have identified a pebble-like object found in Sussex more than 10 years ago as a piece of dinosaur brain, making the discovery the first ever confirmed.

A team of scientists from Japan and Mongolia has announced the discovery of one of the largest dinosaur footprints that has ever been documented.

Researchers in Scotland have unveiled the skeleton of a 164-million-year-old fossil known as the Storr Lochs Monster which is an ancient marine reptile believed to have existed at the same time as the dinosaurs.

Paleontologists with the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture have made a major discovery. Recently, they have found a 66.3-million-year old Tyrannosaurus rex skull.

Dinosaurs were in decline long before an asteroid strike polished them off about 66 million years ago.

A significant dinosaur discovery has been made in Wales. A recently published study states that the 201-million-year old creature is “the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur and it represents the first dinosaur skeleton from the Jurassic of Wales.”

In 2010, scientists discovered the nearly-complete fossils of a juvenile Chasmosaurus in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. The Chasmosaurus is a relative of the most famous Triceratops.

The fossil exhibit for the Titanosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever, opens at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on Friday.

What will “The Good Dinosaur teach children? To not be selfish, for one, but ultimately to show that hardship and a tribulation trip through the scary wilderness results in a tempering of character, and the ability to conquer fear. Which is quite a gift, given the level of scariness existing in the world today.

Hundreds of thousands of years of volcanic eruptions in India—accelerated by a massive asteroid impact 66 million years ago—may have caused a perfect storm that led to the extinction of dinosaurs and other animals.

Researchers discovered evidence of both food and feces in a particularly well-preserved pterosaur fossil.