Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. The researchers say their discovery, reported in the ...

Navaornis lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, before the mass extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs. Artist’s impression of Navaornis. Credit: Júlia ...

Ankylosaur armor could likely withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, the best-preserved dinosaur fossil on record has revealed. The fossil belonged to a nodosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur ...

Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once dominated the Earth. Paleontologist from the Federal University of Santa Maria ...

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists ...

The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, could shed light on the origin of the oldest dinosaurs, though paleontologists still have questions about its spot on the ...

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Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ecosystem in what is now northeast China. Diverse fossils from that ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

The geological record suggests that meteorites larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs hit the early Earth at least every 15 million years. Life was resilient, Drabon said, but those impacts ...

A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured next to a 3D-printed representation of the tadpole and of a ...

The metropolis is an important center for paleontological research, but until now, fossils of plants and fish were the only remains of dinosaur-era life found there Margherita Bassi Daily ...