A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch eggs. By Jack Tamisiea Under the cover of darkness 67 million years ago, a ...

In Canada, scientists are using drones and lichens to find dinosaur fossils, a method detailed in arecent Current Biology study. Researchers have discovered that certain lichens colonize exposed ...

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Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process — just count up the growth rings in its fossilized bones. "We always thought that those rings were formed ...

A case of mistaken identity seemingly finally settled this week could shake up vast swathes of what we thought we knew about the most ferocious of dinosaurs—Tyrannosaurus rex. For years, ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...