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Paleontology & Fossils Mar 8, 2024

Titanosaurs were the biggest land animals Earth's ever seen, combining reptile and mammal traits

You're probably familiar with classic sauropod dinosaurs—the four-legged herbivores famous for their long necks and tails. Animals such as Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus and Diplodocus have been standard fixtures in science ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jun 14, 2023

Fossil reveals smallest sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Jurassic

A tiny relative of titanosaurs has been uncovered in South Africa.

Paleontology & Fossils Dec 21, 2021

Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg

A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study.

Paleontology & Fossils Oct 22, 2021

A social species? Newly discovered fossils show early dinosaurs lived in herds

Were dinosaurs unfeeling scaly brutes or caring, well behaved and intelligent? This debate has continued since dinosaurs were first discovered 200 years ago, and has spilled over into the movies and popular consciousness.

Archaeology Nov 6, 2020

Baby dinosaurs were 'little adults'

Long neck, small head and a live weight of several tons—with this description you could have tracked down the Plateosaurus in Central Europe about 220 million years ago. Paleontologists at the University of Bonn have now ...

Archaeology Aug 27, 2020

First 3D look at an embryonic sauropod dinosaur reveals unexpected facial features

About 25 years ago, researchers discovered the first dinosaur embryos in an enormous nesting ground of titanosaurian dinosaurs that lived about 80 million years ago in a place known as Auca Mahuevo in Patagonia, Argentina. ...

Archaeology Jan 31, 2018

Dinosaur age meets the space age

A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70 mammal and dinosaur tracks from more than 100 million years ago, according to a new paper published Jan. 31 in the journal Scientific ...

Archaeology Apr 29, 2016

Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives

Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball.

Archaeology Feb 24, 2016

Could big dinosaurs swim? Scientists follow the footprints

How far can you trust a footprint? Dinosaur footprints are fascinating but there's a question over how reliable they are at providing information about the palaeobiology of the creatures that made them. While certain prints ...

Archaeology Jul 17, 2013

Plant-eating dinosaurs replaced teeth often, carried spares

Some of the largest herbivorous dinosaurs replaced their teeth at a rate of approximately one tooth every 1-2 months to compensate for tooth wear from crunching up plants, according to research published July 17 in the open ...

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