Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than scientists first thought.

What happened in the days, even hours, after an asteroid set off the fifth extinction? A New Jersey quarry, and site of a new museum founded by paleontologist Ken Lacovara, sheds light on the mystery.

Velociraptor. Image via Openverse. Velociraptor mongoliensis was a mid-sized dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived approximately 75-71 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. Standing about 0 ...

But despite its ferocious appendages, this dinosaur wasn’t a carnivorous predator. “It’s like nature gave it a pair of machetes not for fighting, but for gardening,” said Yoshitsugu ...

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