The fossils provide unique insights into an ancient Australian ecosystem dominated by powerful “megaraptor” dinosaurs measuring 6-7 metres in length. Two of the new megaraptor species are the ...

Instead, they evolved step by step from much simpler structures called proto-feathers, which first appeared in some dinosaurs about 200 million years ago. Proto-feathers were tiny, tube-shaped ...

This cache of fossils included the oldest large megaraptor ever found ... largest theropods (a bipedal group of mostly meat-eating dinosaurs) ever discovered in Australia. It also predates ...

Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were ...

A new study has revealed that "hug of death" megaraptorids and previously unknown carcharodontosaurs shared Australia's unique Antarctic dinosaur ecosystem during the Cretaceous.

How do scientists study the behaviour of dinosaurs, who died 65 million years ago? After all, dinosaur fossils are rare enough as it is, and most are fragments and difficult to work with.

This was the Early Cretaceous, and lush forests filled with dinosaurs dominated the landscape. We still find traces of these animals in Victoria’s fossil record. Most of the dinosaur fossils ...

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A giant flying squirrel. Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Scientists have discovered a giant flying squirrel that once glided through the forests of what is now Southern Appalachia. This ...

Alaska is a very large state with a rich history in terms of human settlements and prehistoric creatures. This state was home to woolly mammoths and giant marine reptiles like Megalneusaurus, but ...