A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

In June 2024, paleontologists made an extraordinary discovery in Oxfordshire, UK—a gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil. This remarkable find has captivated the scientific community and the public alike ...

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Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye.

Many of the footprints belonged to theropods – meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs. These include morphotype-1a, a ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a fossil acanthocephalan ...

Tiny reptile fossils are revealing more about life in the UK during the time of the dinosaurs. The Middle Jurassic, which lasted from around 174 to 161 million years ago, was a crucial time in the ...

Its hooked proboscis and large body size suggest that it was an endoparasite during the Jurassic period. Furthermore, this fossil implies that acanthocephalans may have originated in terrestrial ...