With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...
A team of scientists has uncovered fossils of a 33 ft apex predator dinosaur, breaking records in its appropriate category. The now largest Megaraptor measured around 33 ft in length and featured two ...
While the great Tyrannosaurus rex stalked prehistoric North America, a very different apex predator prowled ancient Argentina: the newly discovered megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali. When ...
The Velociraptors of "Jurassic Park" were terrifyingly large, merciless killing machines. The stuff of nightmares, yes. The stuff of reality? Not so much. Scientific research has long held the real ...
You might think that the age of dinosaurs is set in stone, like the fossils they left behind, but paleontologists uncover new species and make new discoveries practically every day. Recently, ...
The discovery of a giant predator in Patagonia provides exceptional testimony about the end of the age of dinosaurs. The unique position of a fossilized bone opens a window into its feeding habits.
(NEW YORK) — Although the velociraptors of “Jurassic Park” fame are well known, they don’t much resemble their historical counterparts. The movie velociraptors are portrayed as being 6 feet tall with ...
Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary history and hierarchy of predators on the continent. The research, published in ...
A 32ft (9.5m) “death shadow” dinosaur that may have been the apex predator of its time about 70 million years ago has been discovered by scientists in Argentina. The new dinosaur, Maip macrothorax, is ...
Fossils of one of the last remaining megaraptors, a carnivorous dinosaur with claws more than a foot in length, have been discovered in Argentina. The discovery was made in Patagonia and is believed ...
The name 'Megaraptor' almost sounds made up - the product of a hollywood monster movie; a Jurassic World hybrid dinosaur, perhaps. While scientists do tend to give dinosaurs more dramatic names than ...
The remains of a dinosaur twice the size of a modern-day giraffe have been found by paleontologists digging in Estancia La Anita, a Cretaceous-era fossil deposit in Argentina. At 33 feet (10 meters), ...