Say hello to a new theropod dinosaur species, Vectaerovenator inopinatus. Discovered after a series of serendipitous fossil finds on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, it is thought to date to 115 million years ago, during the Cretaceous. The Latin name of the new dino roughly refers to …
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Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a new species of theropod dinosaur – making it a close relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex. A group of researchers said they had recently discovered rare bones in the UK that appear to be related to the iconic species. Paleontologists at the …
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Crocodiles may seem intimidating in the year 2020, but millions of years ago, they were so large, they were able to eat dinosaurs. These massive North American crocodiles, scientists said, had teeth the “size of bananas.” According to a new study of fossils of Deinosuchus published in the Journal of …
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On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …
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