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Paleontology & Fossils Oct 22, 2021

Australia's oldest dinosaur was a peaceful vegetarian, not a fierce predator

Ipswich, about 40 kilometers west of Brisbane, seems an unlikely place to find dinosaur fossils. Yet the area has produced the oldest evidence of dinosaurs in Australia.

Paleontology & Fossils Oct 21, 2021

'Big John', world's largest triceratops, sells for 6.6mn euros

"Big John", 66-million-years old and the largest triceratops skeleton ever unearthed at eight metres long, was sold at auction to a US collector on Thursday for a gargantuan 6.6 million euros.

Paleontology & Fossils Oct 21, 2021

Curators squeezed out by high dino bones price tag

This week the largest triceratops skeleton ever unearthed goes up for auction in Paris—but museum curators like Francis Duranthon can only dream of getting their hands on such a prize.

Paleontology & Fossils Aug 31, 2021

Meet 'Big John': World's biggest triceratops on sale in Paris

A Paris auction house will seek to sell in October the world's biggest known example of the dinosaur triceratops, known as "Big John", with the spectacular skeleton on show to the public beforehand, organisers said Tuesday.

Paleontology & Fossils Aug 25, 2021

The giant jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus was a scavenger, not a predator

In a paper published August 23, authors Cameron Pahl and Luis Ruedas, of Portland State University, show that Allosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic that has long been thought to be a top predator, could ...

Archaeology Jul 15, 2020

New Mygatt-Moore quarry research leads to prehistoric climate finds

Top predator dinosaurs like the Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus devouring dinosaur remains isn't all that surprising, but the smaller creatures feasting on dinosaur remains may just give us a more complete picture of what life ...

Archaeology Jun 19, 2020

Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as T. rex stomped across Australia 160 million years ago

Perhaps the most iconic dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive predator that lived in what is now North America. We have now discovered that carnivorous dinosaurs of a similar size existed in ancient Australia as well.

Archaeology Jun 17, 2020

Gigantic Australian carnivorous dinosaurs discovered and studied using footprints

North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus—now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs.

Archaeology May 27, 2020

In stressed ecosystems Jurassic dinosaurs turned to scavenging, maybe even cannibalism

Big theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus ate pretty much everything—including each other, according to a new study, "High Frequencies of Theropod Bite Marks Provide Evidence for Feeding, Scavenging, and ...

Archaeology Jan 24, 2020

New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah

A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in early 1990s in Dinosaur National Monument in northeastern Utah. The ...

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