Dinosaurs

A Comet Exploded Above North America 12,800 Years Ago, Say Scientists

A Comet Exploded Above North America 12,800 Years Ago, Say Scientists

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A fragmented comet smashed into the Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread … [+] climatic shift, according to new research. ...

New Study Challenges 30-Year-Old Theory Linking Griffins to Dinosaurs

New Study Challenges 30-Year-Old Theory Linking Griffins to Dinosaurs

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Painting of a griffin, a lion-raptor chimera, alongside the fossils of Protoceratops, a horned dinosaur. The latter are said to have informed ...

Remarkable New Dinosaur Unearthed in the Ancient Swamps of Montana

Remarkable New Dinosaur Unearthed in the Ancient Swamps of Montana

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Reconstruction of Lokiceratops in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, as two Probrachylophosaurus move past in the background. Credit: Fabrizio Lavezzi © ...

Fossil pre-dating dinosaurs confirms nothosaurs existed in Southern Hemisphere

Fossil pre-dating dinosaurs confirms nothosaurs existed in Southern Hemisphere

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

By RNZ A 246-million-year-old fossil discovered in Canterbury upends long-standing theories about Earth’s natural history, researchers say. Scientists from New Zealand working ...

Scientists Unveil the True Origins of Welsh Dragons – New Fossil Evidence Changes History

Scientists Unveil the True Origins of Welsh Dragons – New Fossil Evidence Changes History

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A major fossil discovery in Wales reveals early dinosaurs lived on a tropical lowland by the sea over 200 million years ago. ...

Scientists Discover Potential Origin of the First “Warm-Blooded” Dinosaurs

Scientists Discover Potential Origin of the First “Warm-Blooded” Dinosaurs

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Recent research indicates that some dinosaurs might have developed the ability to internally regulate their body temperature during the early Jurassic period, ...

New Research Reveals That Dinosaurs Were Not As Smart as We Thought

New Research Reveals That Dinosaurs Were Not As Smart as We Thought

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Image of a T. rex skeletal cast at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany. T. rex lived at the end of the Cretaceous (about ...

A New Study Shakes Up Ecological Theories

A New Study Shakes Up Ecological Theories

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Nanuqsaurus, standing in the background, and pachyrhinosaurus, skull in the foreground, were among the dinosaur species included in a new study led ...

Archaeologists in Brazil find petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks

Archaeologists in Brazil find petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

A study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports reveals that archaeologists in the northeastern Brazilian state of Paraíba have discovered ...

“Once-in-a-Million-Years” – Scientists Discover Strange Fossils of Duckbill Dinosaurs in Morocco

“Once-in-a-Million-Years” – Scientists Discover Strange Fossils of Duckbill Dinosaurs in Morocco

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Minqaria bata was around the size of a pony (3-4 meters long) and closely resembles the European species of duckbill dinosaur. Credit: ...