For the first time, razor sharp teeth of tyrannosaurs were found in the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East Sussex, England. These teeth indicate that a bevy of carnivorous dinosaurs including tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs, and members of the Velociraptor family stalked this region about 135 million years ago. The findings are detailed in a study published December […]
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Fossilized faeces samples revealed dinosaurs’ changing diets.Credit: Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki By analysing fossils of poo and vomit, researchers have reconstructed what dinosaurs ate and how this changed over time. The findings give a better understanding of how […]
Paleontologists have long puzzled over how the dinosaurs—originally relatively small and of minor importance to the broader ecosystem—evolved to become the dominant species some 30 million years later. Fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs might hold important clues to how and why this evolutionary milestone came about, according to a new paper published in the […]
In 2021, researchers uncovered the fossilized remains of six remarkably well preserved dinosaur eggs near a construction site in the Chinese region of Ganzhou. Now, after careful laboratory analysis, a team of paleontologists, evolutionary experts, and geoscientists have confirmed the specimens aren’t just some of the most complete dinosaur eggs ever found—they’re officially the smallest […]
