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With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs ...
Called the "dragon of Qijiang," for the Chinese city in which the fossil was found, the newly-discovered dinosaur species has a lightweight neck that spans half the length of its 50-foot body.
Scientist Ashley Poust is shown at the Dalian Natural History Museum working on the fossil of the newly discovered Chinese feathered dinosaur Wulong bohaiensis, in this image released Jan. 17, 2020.
‘Amazing dragon’ fossils could rewrite dinosaur evolution By . Reuters. Published July 25, 2018, 1:11 p.m. ET. An artist's rendering of Lingwulong shenqi. Reuters ...
The fossil — a massive jawbone — suggests that the Thapunngaka shawi was a ferocious hunter. The 3.2 foot-long jaw likely held as many as 40 huge, sharp teeth.
The 174-million-year-old fossil was found in China's Lingwu region, and was given the name Lingwulong shenqi, which is Chinese for the "Lingwu amazing dragon." The new dinosaur was a neosauropod ...
An amateur fossil hunter just unearthed a new species of "sea dragon" dinosaur on a British beach. The sea dragon, or ichthyosaur, was a dolphin-like reptile that used its sharp teeth to prey on ...
The fossil, dated to the time right before a giant impact wiped out the dinosaurs, was almost destroyed during school construction. ... 'Mud Dragon' Dinosaur Unearthed—By Dynamite.
Scientists have identified a previously unknown 86 million-year-old dinosaur species that fills an early gap in the fossil record of tyrannosaurs, revealing how they evolved to become massive apex ...
Two brothers hunting for ichthyosaur fossils along the coast of the United Kingdom came across something far more astounding: The bones of what may be the earliest known dinosaur from the Jurassic ...
Scientists in Chile's Atacama Desert have unearthed the fossil remains of a so-called "flying dragon," a Jurassic-era pterosaur previously known only to the northern hemisphere.