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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...
In 2009, a teen on a Utah fossil trip found a skeleton of a baby dinosaur that changed what researchers knew about ParasaurolophusA student's fossil find in Utah revealed a rare juvenile Parasaurolophus. This discovery offered scientists a complete look at the dinosaur...
In 2017, workers building a police and fire facility in Colorado accidentally exposed the fossils of Torosaurus, which rewrote Colorado's prehistoric mapA construction site in Thornton, Colorado, unexpectedly unearthed massive fossilized bones in 2017, halting development for a public safety...
Scientists Found a Rare Fossil Showing Snakes Once Had Legs and Looked Very Different From TodayA remarkable fossil, Najash rionegrina, reveals snakes evolved gradually, losing legs and reshaping their bodies over millions of years. Th...
Enormous octopuses dominated Earth's prehistoric seas over 100 million years agoAncient oceans were once ruled by enormous octopus relatives. New research reveals these early creatures were massive, dominant hunters. Fo...
Giant octopus fossil proves Kraken was real? Sea monster bigger than most dinosaurs lived 100 million years ago: StudyGiant octopus fossil: A new study published in Science reveals that giant octopus-like creatures up to 19 metres long lived as apex predato...
‘Kraken-Like’ giant octopuses as large as semi-trucks ruled oceans 100 million years ago, study findsNew research reveals giant octopuses were powerful ocean predators around 100 million years ago. These creatures, some reaching 19 meters, ...
Scientists Thought They Were Disappearing: Why This Fossil Says OtherwiseA fossilized neck bone unearthed in Russia is rewriting our understanding of ancient flying reptiles. This discovery, similar to a find in ...
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...
18,000 Dinosaur Footprints Set a Record: And Some Are Swim TracksBolivia's Torotoro National Park has yielded an unprecedented 18,000 dinosaur fossil traces, including thousands of footprints and swim mar...
How were dinosaurs’ last days on Earth before the asteroid hit? New evidence shows they were wiped out in their primeNew findings indicate dinosaurs were flourishing just before the asteroid strike. Fossils from New Mexico show diverse and healthy dinosaur...
Paleontological Breakthrough: Evidence Shows Three-Toed Ankylosaurs Roamed North America 100 Million Years AgoThe footprints in question were found in both British Columbia and Alberta. They were phenomenal in the sense that the samples represented ...
Scientists discover river system that flowed 40 million years under ice in AntarcticaGeologists have discovered an old river that formerly flowed through Antarctica but is now buried below kilometers of ice.
Argentine archaeologists unearth remains of a 90 million-yr old herbivore dinosaurThe animal, named Chakisaurus nekul, was found in the Pueblo Blanco Natural Reserve, in the southern province of Rio Negro, an area rich in...
Fossils found in Alberta, ground zero for dinosaur discoveries, may reveal new facts about their evolutionThe most significant specimens tended to come from the badlands along the Red Deer River.
Over 90 fossil nests belonging to India's largest dinosaurs uncoveredThe Lameta Formation, located in the Narmada Valley of central India, is well-known for fossils of dinosaur skeletons and eggs of the Late ...
- Researchers find earliest relative of Brachiosaurus dinosaur
London, May 3 (IANS) A giant dinosaur species that lived around 160 million years ago could be the earliest relative of Brachiosaurus, depi...
- How India lost an island chain in the Bay of Bengal
Bengaluru, April 5 (IANS) A chain of islands that once existed in the Bay of Bengal now lies buried under water, according to a new study b...
Dinosaurs, Mars volcano went extinct about the same time: NASAThe research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every one to three million years du...
- 81 million year old teeth of dinosaur found in Nagasaki
Two fossilised teeth of a carnivorous dinosaur existing in Japan have been found from 81 million years old layer of earth in Nagasaki, rese...