In 2021, scientists found an unborn dinosaur frozen inside a museum egg for 70 million years, and the fossil revealed its final moments before hatch dayA remarkably preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur embryo, nicknamed Baby Yingliang, has been discovered in China. Its curled posture, mir...
26 May, 2026, 01.58 PM IST
Rare Pulaosaurus qinglong fossil suggests some dinosaurs may have sounded like birds and shared similar vocal anatomyA newly discovered fossil of Pulaosaurus qinglong, a small plant-eating dinosaur, reveals a bony voice box similar to modern birds. This fi...
18 May, 2026, 02.48 PM IST
Scientists just dug up a 20-meter dinosaur in Argentina that's rewriting Jurassic historyA remarkable dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in Argentina. Named Bicharracosaurus dionidei, this creature lived around 155 million years...
13 May, 2026, 11.07 PM IST
Scientists say Jurassic Park’s T. Rex missed one major detail about the dinosaur’s skinRecent fossil evidence suggests adult T. Rex likely sported scaly skin, not a full feather coat. While some smaller relatives had filamento...
12 May, 2026, 04.42 PM IST
Hidden Under Ash: 86-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Eggs in China Reveal a Story No One ExpectedScientists unearthed 28 dinosaur eggs in Hubei Province, dating back approximately 86 million years to the Late Cretaceous period. This dis...
21 Mar, 2026, 11.00 PM IST
What If Dinosaurs Had Spikes Like Porcupines? This Fossil Suggests They DidScientists found a new dinosaur species, Haolong dongi, in China. This dinosaur had unique hollow spikes growing from its skin. This is the...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.30 PM IST
Eggs en Provence: France's unique dinosaur egg troveAt the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalised by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a palaeontologist brushes meti...
02 Jul, 2025, 12.12 PM IST
China fossils reveal that parrot-like feathered dinos once roamed the earth!Unearthed in northeastern China, the nearly complete fossil, dating to roughly 130 million years ago, is of a juvenile Psittacosaurus (pron...
01 Jun, 2024, 10.11 PM IST
The first dinosaur was named 200 years ago. We know so much more nowBuckland recognized that these fossils belonged to a huge bygone reptile, and gave it a formal scientific name: Megalosaurus, meaning "grea...
13 Feb, 2024, 04.41 PM IST
Mammals may have feasted on dinosaurs once upon a time, claims a new studyThat mammals ate dinosaur meat had been proposed before: another fossil showed a mammal died with dinosaur remains in its gut.
19 Jul, 2023, 09.00 AM IST
Diner at Chinese restaurant finds dinosaur footprints from 100 million years agoThe footprints were discovered in the outer courtyard of the restaurant in Leshan, CNN reported, and they belonged to two sauropods.
14 Aug, 2022, 04.54 PM IST
Tiny bird-like dinosaur with rainbow feathers discoveredScientists have discovered 161 million-year-old fossils of a tiny bird-like dinosaur from China that sported flashy rainbow feathers and a ...
16 Jan, 2018, 12.02 PM IST
Giant bird-like dinosaur species found in China: StudyMeasuring about eight metres and weighing up to three tonnes, the new species named Beibeilong sinensis or baby dragon from China, lived ab...
10 May, 2017, 02.27 PM IST
- Why are birds toothless?
New York, Dec 23 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a dinosaur species that shed its "milk teeth" but did not replace them, a finding that ...
23 Dec, 2016, 05.10 PM IST
- Why birds are toothless, explained
New York, Dec 23 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a dinosaur species that shed its "milk teeth" but did not replace them, a finding that ...
23 Dec, 2016, 04.54 PM IST
231 dinosaur eggs seized from home in ChinaThe skeleton was later identified as belonging to a Psittacosaurus, a genus of extinct ceratopsian dinosaur.
07 Aug, 2015, 12.21 PM IST
43 dinosaur egg fossils unearthed in ChinaAfter two hours of effort, archaeologists from the city of Heyuan unearthed a nest of 43 dinosaur egg fossils at the site yesterday, 19 of ...
20 Apr, 2015, 11.15 PM IST