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Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest-ever land-based hunter’s dinosaur

Paleontologists at the University of Southampton have discovered the remains of one of Europe's largest land-based hunts, a 10m-long dinosaur that lived some 125 million years ago. Several prehistoric bones discovered on the Isle of Wight, on England's south coast, and housed at the...

Fossils show a crocodile ancestor dined on a young dinosaur

Scientists have found evidence that an ancient crocodile ancestor chowed down on a dinosaur. A member of a newfound species dubbed Confractosuchus sauroktonos, preserved within a fossilized crocodyliform, are the partially digested remains of a juvenile bipedal ornithopod. University of New England in Australia, paleontologist Matt...

AI will revolutionize how we research dinosaur fossils

Artificial intelligence technologies can identify tumour by high-resolution medical imagery. Scientists have used the technology to analyse similar scans of dinosaur fossils. The study has been published in Frontiers in Earth Science. Dinosaurs’ fossil relies on the morphology of the preserved remains of the animals....

Fossils of sauropodomorph ancestor show it walked upright

University of Bristol researchers have found evidence that an early ancestor of the giant sauropodomorph dinosaurs had walked upright. It was also quick and agile. The research paper has been published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Scientists described their study of Thecodontosaurus...

Scientists found Ankylosaur was sluggish and deaf

Scientists from Germany and Austria took a closer look at the braincase of a dinosaur from Austria. Scientists investigated the fossil with a micro-CT. They have found out that it was sluggish and deaf. The study has been published in Scientific Reports. Ankylosaurs are eight...