Digital reconstruction of the embryonic sauropod skull, with eyes added to show forward direction.Image: Kundrat et al. Current biology A rare egg fossil with an unbroken dinosaur suggests that baby sauropods were not miniature versions of the four-legged, long-necked hats that we all know and love, exhibit a unique set …
Read More »Paleontologists are discovering a new species of dinosaur on the Isle of Wight
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 …
Read More »These Jurassic Sea Creatures Spent decades crossing the ocean on rafts. Here’s how
The English city of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known from the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, collecting fossils with another pioneering paleontologist, Mary Anning. One of their discoveries was the remains of …
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