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The top ten dinosaur discoveries of 2025, from preserved blood vessels to the return of a short king
With 2025 stomping its way to a close, we’re left to look back at another stunning year of dinosaur discoveries. The year has ...
In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the BBC revived their landmark series Walking With Dinosaurs, while July saw the ...
(TMX) - A fossil once locked in prehistoric combat has just rewritten one of paleontology’s longest-running debates — and upended what scientists thought they knew about Tyrannosaurus rex. The ...
Paleontologists at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered a new species of dinosaur called nanotyrannus lancensis. The discovery came after studying a fossil called "Dueling ...
New research confirms that Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex, but a predatory species native to the Late Cretaceous ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina researchers have confirmed the existence of a new tyrannosaur species that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex — a finding scientists say rewrites decades of understanding ...
WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter ...
A team of paleontologists has meticulously documented an astonishing 16,600 individual footprints within Toro Toro, a national park in the Bolivian Andes. These vast arrays of footprints, left by ...
For many years, paleontologists have debated about whether there was a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, or if those smaller fossils were really just awkward teenage versions of the king of ...
The most ferocious predator of the ancient world had a smaller, lightweight cousin: a new species of tyrannosaur uncovered in a Raleigh laboratory. For years, paleontologists at the NC Museum of ...
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