Scientists have uncovered fossils of a new dog-sized dinosaur species that lived alongside some of the largest dinosaurs ever known. This remarkable discovery sheds light on the diversity of prehistoric life and how smaller dinosaurs coexisted with gigantic species millions of years ago.According to The BBC, a study published in the journal Royal Society Open…
100-million-year-old dinosaur eggs recovered in Jurassic America Central Utah, 100 million years ago, was a very different place–covered in forests and water. It was a lush, watery landscape on the edge of the Western Interior Seaway. In this landscape, dinosaurs and early mammals drank from the same water sources, while ancient crocodiles hid beneath the…
For centuries, humans have looked to the skies and wished they could fly, to be as free as a bird. Little did we know, a scrappy little dinosaur beat us to it 150 million years ago. Meet Archaeopteryx, the feathered trailblazer of aviation, whose newly analysed fossil has scientists flapping with excitement. Found in limestone…
Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe’s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to find what might be one of the world’s most important fossil sites. But 66 million years ago, tantalizingly close in time to when the dinosaurs went extinct, a multitude…
Quarry workers in England have discovered the clawed footprints of a 30-foot-tall predator and the sunken tracks of other dinosaurs, in what paleontologists are calling one of the most significant finds in Britain in nearly three decades. A trail of five distinct prints were uncovered last summer in a quarry in Oxfordshire, about 60 miles…
A worker at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire uncovered nearly 200 dinosaur tracks, dating back 166 million years, providing unique insights into the Middle Jurassic period. The extraordinary find made after a team of more than 100 people excavated the Dewars Farm Quarry, in Oxfordshire, in June expands upon previous paleontology work in the area…
Scientists from Oxford and Birmingham Universities have discovered an extensive quarry floor containing numerous dinosaur footprints. The remarkable discovery includes several massive trackways from the Middle Jurassic Period, approximately 166 million years ago.The trackways, part of a vast prehistoric pathway, include prints from the nine-metre predator Megalosaurus and plant-eating dinosaurs twice that size.The excavation will…