View Article  Discovery of New Horned Dinosaur from Montana

Huge Chasmosaurine Medusaceratops lokii a Montana Dinosaur Mystery

Scientists at the Cleveland Museum of Natual History have announced the discovery of a new genus of horned dinosaur (Ceratopsian) from late ...   more »

View Article  Another Bonhams Auction - Prehistoric Items and Rare Objects up for Sale

Bonhams and Butterfields Auction of Rare Prehistoric Items

The latest prehistoric relics and strange object auction took place last Thursday at Bonhams and Butterfields auction house (New York).  If you ...   more »

View Article  Dublin Team Announces Discovery of New Pterosaur

Earliest Known Member of Azhdarchidae Pterosaurs Announced

A team of Dublin scientists have published a paper in the online scientific journal PL0S ONE on the discovery of the fossilised remains ...   more »

View Article  "Grinding Mouth and Wrinkle Eye" - American Scientists Announce New Dinosaur Genus

Jeyawati rugoculus A new Genus of Basal Hadrosaur from New Mexico

A team of American palaeontologists have announced the discovery of a new primitive duck-billed dinosaur from western New Mexico ...   more »

View Article  Evidence of European Ceratopsians Grows with Hungarian Discovery

Ajkaceratops kozmai - The First Ceratopsian from Europe

One of the last types of dinosaur to evolve were the horned dinosaurs. These herbivorous creatures, part of the Sub-Order Marginocephalia (shelf ...   more »

View Article  Ichthyosaur Turns up in School Vegetable Patch

Ichthyosaur Fossils Found in School Vegetable Patch

Many schools have set aside a small area of their grounds to act as a vegetable garden so that the pupils can have ...   more »

View Article  "Clumped Isotopes" May Answer Question of Whether or Not Dinosaurs were Endothermic

Warm-blooded or Cold-Blooded Dinosaurs - "Clumped Isotopes" May Reveal the Answer

One of the key questions regarding Dinosauria and other extinct reptiles of the Mesozoic puzzled over ty scientists almost ...   more »

View Article  Demoting a Dinosaur New Skull Material Takes Azendohsaurus out of the Dinosauria

Azendohsaurus - Not a Dinosaur, as Homer Simpson would say DOH!

A prehistoric reptile that roamed what was Africa in the middle of the Triassic that was once thought to ...   more »

View Article  Devonian Mass Extinction Event Cleared the way for New Vertebrates

Mass Extinction Event Opened up New Opportunities for Vertebrates

A paper published in the scientific journal "The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", by a team of American researchers ...   more »

View Article  Happy Anniversary to Tyrannosaurus rex "Sue"

10th Anniversary of "Sue" Tyrannosaurus rex on Display at the Field Museum

Today, May 17th marks the 10th anniversary of the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen known as "Sue" going on display ...   more »

View Article  Sue a Bargain at $8.36 million USD

Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex a $8.36 Million Dollar Bargain say Chicago Field Museum Officials

When Sue Hendrickson, noticed some fossilised bones eroding out of a butte in South Dakota butte in ...   more »

View Article  Early Birds Not Flyers but Gliders and Parachutists According to New Research

Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornithids Not Flyers as Feathers Not Strong Enough

An Anglo/Irish team of scientists have published research that questions the flying abilities of some of the earliest birds known ...   more »

View Article  Yoga Instructor Seeking Karma finds Dinosaur Footprints Intead

Giant Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Argentina

A yoga instructor practising some exercises has discovered the fossilised footprints of a giant Sauropod (long-necked) dinosaur in southern Argentina.  The footprints, which scientists ...   more »

View Article  Most Complete Fossil of a Crocodylotarsian found in Brazil

Ancient Crocodile Ancestor Fossils Discovered in Brazil

The Archosaurs, the group of reptiles that the Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs evolved from originated in the late Palaeozoic.  However, after the mass extinction ...   more »

View Article  New Archaeopteryx Study Reveals Chemical Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds

Archaeopteryx Reveals Chemical Link Between Dinosaurs and Birds

A team of Anglo/American researchers have published a new study on one of the most famous of all the creatures in the ...   more »