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News Articles: dinosaurs

A lump of chewed up crinoid fragments from 66 million years ago is now at a museum in Denmark.

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66 million years ago, a fish chewed up and spit out food. It's now a fossil in Denmark

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism's daily life.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • James Doubek
A team of 100 researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford uncovered around 200 dinosaur footprints along five trackways in southeast England during a week-long excavation in June 2024.

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  • Science

Jurassic footprints are discovered on a 'dinosaur highway' in southern England

The 166-million-year-old footprint tracks, found at a quarry in southern England, mark one of the largest discoveries in decades.

January 04, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Rosman
<em>Navaornis</em> in hand.

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  • Science

Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Two complete skeletons of the dinosaur <em>Psittacosaurus</em> from one of the sites analyzed by the research team. Some scientists say these fossils show evidence of preservation due to their burrows collapsing.

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  • Science

Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.

November 09, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Researchers analyzed theropod footprints in Brazil, left, and in Cameroon, right.

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Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart in Africa and South America

A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in an area that once connected the two continents.

August 28, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
 An artist impression of <em>Fona herzogae.</em>

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  • Science

A newly discovered dinosaur may have spent part of its life underground

A new dinosaur has been discovered in Utah by North Carolina researchers and paleontologists. They believe it was a burrowing species.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Jordan-Marie Smith
A 150 million-year-old fossil of a stegosaurus specimen is shown at Sotheby's in New York. The fossil, dubbed "Apex" by the paleontologist who discovered it, is expected to fetch $4 million to $6 million at auction, making it one of the most expensive fossils ever sold.

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A stegosaurus fossil could fetch $6 million at Sotheby's. Should they be auctioned?

Sotheby's is presenting one of the most complete skeletal remains of a Jurassic creature. But some people say such specimens should not be auctioned.

July 13, 2024
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By:
  • Andrew Mambo
This illustration depicts a washed-up <em>Ichthyotitan severnensis </em>carcass on the beach.

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Largest-ever marine reptile found with help from an 11-year-old girl

A father and daughter discovered fossil remnants of a giant ichthyosaur that scientists say may have been the largest-known marine reptile to ever swim the seas.

May 06, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
The Torres' House

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Dunwoody Dino House gets 30-day reprieve while council mulls sign ordinance

The popular Dunwoody Dino House, which had been cited for violating the city’s sign ordinance as the result of a single complaint, has been given a 30-day reprieve.

September 12, 2023
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  • Cathy Cobbs
Scientists have identified a fossil of an herbivorous dinosaur, <em>Psittacosaurus</em>, being bitten by a mammal, <em>Repenomamus</em>.

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This fossil of a mammal biting a dinosaur captures a death battle's final moments

A 125-million-year-old fossil from the early Cretaceous shows the skeletons of a smaller mammal biting a larger horned dinosaur, suggesting a much more complex ancient food web.

July 19, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
This is an artist's rendering of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis, which lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts. The dinosaur, whose name means "swift-footed lizard of Holyoke," has been named the state's official dinosaur.

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'Swift-footed lizard' is named the Massachusetts state dinosaur

Podokesaurus holyokensis, which lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts, has been named the state's official dinosaur under legislation signed into law by Gov. Charlie Baker.

October 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
One outline of a footprint discovered in the restaurant courtyard.

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  • Science

A diner discovered 100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints in a restaurant

If you need an excuse to go out to dinner, this paleontological discovery might be it.

July 23, 2022
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  • Erika Ryan and
  • Christopher Intagliata
A Sotheby's New York employee demonstrates the size of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur skeleton on Tuesday in New York.

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A 76 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton will be auctioned in New York City

All of the other known Gorgosaurus skeletons are in museum collections, making this one the only specimen available for private ownership, Sotheby's said.

July 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A photo of the the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite in Moab, Utah. A construction project at the site recently damaged some of the tracks and trace fossils.

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  • Science

A construction project caused damage to 100-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Utah

A project to replace the boardwalk at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite in Moah, Utah, cause minor damage to tracks and trace fossils at the site, a Bureau of Land Management paleontologist found.

April 04, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Brachiosaurus dinosaur, a relative of the newly discovered species, seen in computer artwork.

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  • Science

Scientists Discover Not 1, But 2 New Dinosaur Species In China

Scientists analyzing fossils from the country's northwest regions say two specimens were from previously unknown species.

August 13, 2021
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  • Josie Fischels
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