Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...
It hasn’t been an easy road for dinosaurs – for about 80 years many scientists didn’t think of them as a real group. But since the 1970s the ‘terrible lizards’ have clawed their way back in favour ...
A dinosaur fossil discovered close to Texas Tech University was given the moniker “Technosaurus” which means “tech lizard.” This dinosaur was about the size of a big dog and possessed ...
Once dinosaurs were thought of as scaled-up lizards, but now they’re regarded very differently. “Dinosaurs have always sparked the imagination, but our views on these spectacular animals have changed ...
The snout had a pronounced crest that placed the animal in the genus Gryposaurus (hooked-nose lizard), first described a century ago from specimens at what is now Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.
Dinosaurs were once thought to look like modern lizards, covered in green scales. However, some dinosaur species were actually covered in feathers, just like birds today. We know this because some ...