Tyrannosaurus rex scavenged on Edmontosaurus annectens carcasses in the Late Cretaceous, according to a study published in PLoS ONE. Researchers from Loma Linda University identified specific tooth traces on 12 out of 3,013 fossilized bones from a Wyoming bonebed, concluding the lack of bone healing indicates scavenging rather than active predation. Precision Mapping of T-Rex … Read more
A fossilized tail vertebra collected in Antarctica in 1985 has been identified as a titanosaurian sauropod, marking the first dinosaur bone ever recovered from the continent. Researchers confirmed in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica that the specimen, cataloged as BAS D.8621.25, dates back 83 million years to the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous. How was the … Read more
The discovery of Changzhousaurus sinensis, a four-winged dinosaur unearthed in China’s Jiufotang Formation, provides new evidence that the transition from earthbound theropods to birds involved complex, overlapping evolutionary traits. According to Dr. Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this 120-million-year-old specimen measures 34 cm in length and exhibits a unique combination of flight-related … Read more
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of duck-billed dinosaur, Kryptohadros kallaiae, discovered in the Hațeg Basin of Romania. This herbivorous hadrosauroid lived approximately 70 million years ago during the Maastrichtian age. According to research published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, the discovery helps define the Telmatosauridae, an endemic evolutionary lineage that thrived … Read more
Paleontologists have identified a new species of meiolaniform turtle, Patagoniaemys aeschyli, which inhabited northern Patagonia during the Maastrichtian age, approximately 72 to 67 million years ago. According to research published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, this discovery provides critical evidence that certain turtle lineages in South America survived the asteroid-triggered mass extinction event that … Read more
A Rare Discovery: Unlocking the Secrets of Canada’s Ancient Pacific Coast For decades, the fossil record of North America’s ancient Pacific coastline has remained largely a mystery, overshadowed by the massive dinosaur graveyards of the interior. However, a groundbreaking discovery on British Columbia’s Denman Island is changing the narrative. Paleontologists have identified a tail vertebra … Read more
Beyond the T. Rex: The New Frontier of Tyrannosaur Evolution For decades, the Tyrannosaurus rex has reigned as the undisputed king of the dinosaur world in the public imagination. But recent discoveries in the American Southwest are shifting the narrative. We are no longer just looking at a single “apex predator” at the end of … Read more