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Illustration of mosasaur chasing prey underwater
Science

Geologists accidentally found a monstrous mosasaur fossil in Mississippi mud

By Andrew Paul

Close up of hand excavating ancient amphibian fossil
Science

Ancient alligator-sized amphibians died under mysterious circumstances

By Andrew Paul

Compilation of Guthman Music Competition participants
Technology

Electromagnetic fields and dinosaur choir win international instrument contest

By Andrew Paul

An undated handout photo released by the University of Queensland shows an image of the boulder using 3D imaging and light filters showing the dinosaur footprints.
Science

Dinosaur footprints unknowingly displayed in a high school for 20 years

By Andrew Paul

An illustration of the titanosaur Chadititan calvoi and the other Cretaceous Period organisms it lived with.
Science

New 22-foot-long titanosaur discovered in Argentina

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the landscape of Cretaceous Australia. The mega raptor is standing on the right river bank and Carcharodontosaurus is on the left.
Science

A 20-foot-long ‘mega raptor’ once stalked Australia

By Laura Baisas

Plesiosaur skeleton
Science

Paleontologists solve decades’ old mystery about plesiosaur skin texture

By Andrew Paul

an illustration of two long-beaked birds diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with circular ammonites and long plesiosaurs for company.
Science

After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small dinosaur with its tail in their air
Science

Where in the world are Earth’s oldest dinosaurs?

By Laura Baisas

Lamborghini Miura junkyard auction car
Science

10 of the year’s most interesting auctions: Dinosaurs, coins, and Einstein’s love letters

By Andrew Paul

An illustration of an Early Cretaceous floodplain in southeastern England, 135 million years ago: a spinosaur (center) takes over the carcass of an ornithopod, much to the annoyance of the smaller tyrannosaurs (left) and dromaeosaurids (bottom right).
Science

Retired quarryman uncovers fossilized tyrannosaur teeth

By Laura Baisas

a long piece of fossilized dinosaur poop on the ground
Science

200-million-year-old dinosaur poop and vomit reveal a lost Jurassic world

By Laura Baisas

the skeleton of a Parasaurolophus dinosaur. it has a wave like crest at the top of its skull
Science

A 3D-printed duck-billed dinosaur’s skull could help us learn what it sounded like

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight.
Science

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

By Laura Baisas

Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China's Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism, as previously thought.
Science

Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways

By Mack DeGeurin

Illustration of a terror bird standing by river
Science

Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall

By Andrew Paul

smallest dinosaur egg fossil
Science

These are the smallest fossilized dinosaur eggs ever found

By Andrew Paul

a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left.
Science

The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large hawk-like bird carrying a long tailed rodent in its claws
Science

With fearsome feet, hawk-sized Cretaceous birds could scoop up baby dinos

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pterosaur with a short tail walking with legs and its wings on the ground
Environment

The first true flying vertebrates walked before they could soar

By Laura Baisas