The cast of the skull of Nigersaurus. The fossil skull of Nigersaurus was one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans. Photograph by Ira Block, Nat Geo Image ...

Late in the Cretaceous Period, when tyrannosaurs and their kin were the ruling predators on land, large swimming reptiles ruled the seas. Among them were the plesiosaurs and the mosasaurs. The suffix ...

Spinosaurid dinosaurs were able to develop up to three generations of teeth at the same time, a high replacement rate that explains why so many teeth of this type have been found in Cretaceous sites.

Dave Brockhurst, a local fossil enthusiast, has spent 30 years collecting ancient specimens in the UK. And he finally hit the jackpot. The retired quarryman has uncovered 135-million-year-old ...

Dinosaurs may have vanished millions of years ago, but their teeth still carry a message from Earth’s distant past. A team of scientists from the Universities of Göttingen, Mainz, and Bochum has shown ...

Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis has been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including Allosaurus ...

With 2025 stomping its way to a close, we’re left to look back at another stunning year of dinosaur discoveries. The year has ...

Scientists have revealed thepreserved embryos of a 200-million-year-old dinosaur species. Using a state-of-the-art particle ...

A small dinosaur discovered, Pulaosaurus qinglong, had seeds in its stomach and a “vocal box,” revealing how dinosaurs might ...

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the ...

The speed at which spinosaurid dinosaur teeth were replaced accounts for their overabundance in Cretaceous sites This has been confirmed by a study in which researchers from the UPV/EHU are taking ...

Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including ...