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A skeletal mount of the mosasaur 'Gnathomortis stadtmani' at BYU’s Eyring Science Center. USU Eastern paleontologist Josh Lively named the giant marine lizard that roamed the oceans of North America toward the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Courtesy BYU.

Jaws of death: Paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard

Geology Page - September 26, 2020

Artist’s impression of Spinosaurus. Credit: Davide Bonadonna

Dino teeth research prove giant predatory dinosaur lived in water

Life reconstruction of Euparkeria highlighting the body parts investigated in this study. Credit: Oliver Demuth

Modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals step in the evolution of posture in dinosaur and crocodile ancestors

Sauropod Embryo. Credit: University of Manchester

Newly discovered rare dinosaur embryos show sauropods had rhino-like horns

The largest and the smallest: dinosaurs reached an amazing range in size through the Mesozoic Era. Credit: Vitor Silva

How to weigh a dinosaur

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Using math to examine the sex differences in dinosaurs

Geology Page - September 1, 2020

The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place in the dinosaur family tree, completing a project that began more than a century and a half ago. Credit: John Sibbick

Scelidosaurus : First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found is ready for...

Geology Page - September 1, 2020

Vertebrae from the torso of the long-necked dinosaur "Arapahoe"

How dinosaur research can help medicine

Geology Page - August 26, 2020

The structure of the trabecular, or spongy bone that forms in the interior of bones, is unique within dinosaurs, according to a recent study by SMU paleontologists and others.

Dinosaurs’ unique bone structure key to carrying weight

Geology Page - August 26, 2020

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Biologist sequence genome of rare reptilian ‘living fossil’

Geology Page - August 6, 2020

Malignant cancer diagnosed in a dinosaur for the first time

Malignant cancer diagnosed in a dinosaur for the first time

Geology Page - August 6, 2020

The clutch of fossilized Protoceratops eggs and embryos examined in this study was discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia at Ukhaa Tolgod. Credit: M. Ellison /© AMNH

First Dinosaur Eggs Were Soft Like a Turtle’s

Geology Page - July 25, 2020

A dinosaur-like reptile leaves muddy footprints along the shoreline of a lake during a rainstorm some 234 million years ago in northwestern Argentina. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez/NHMU

Insights into climate change during origin of dinosaurs

Geology Page - July 25, 2020

Decomposition of dinosaurian remains inferred by invertebrate traces on vertebrate bone reveal new insights into Late Jurassic ecology, decay, and climate in western Colorado Credit: Brian Engh

New Mygatt-Moore quarry research leads to prehistoric climate finds

Geology Page - July 25, 2020

Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands. The fossils of Kongonaphon were found in Triassic (~237 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Madagascar and demonstrate the existence of remarkably small animals along the dinosaurian stem. Art by Frank Ippolito / © American Museum of Natural History

A tiny ancient relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs discovered

Geology Page - July 16, 2020

An artist's interpretation of Dilophosaurus based on the latest research. Credit: Brian Engh / The Saint George Dinosaur Discovery Site.

Famous ‘Jurassic Park’ dinosaur is less lizard, more bird

Geology Page - July 16, 2020

An individual of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armoured dinosaur species, witnesses the impact of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatán peninsula 66 million years ago. Not even its large size and thick armour sheltered its kind from the violence of this cosmic disaster. Credit: Fabio Manucci

Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs

Geology Page - July 3, 2020

An egg of Himeoolithus murakamii (left), outlined egg with intact eggshell remains (black area) (middle), and reconstruction of Himeoolithus murakamii and their probable parent dinosaur (right).

Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem

Geology Page - June 27, 2020

Illustration of Borealopelta markmitchelli dinosaur by Julius Csotonyi. Credit: © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Scientists discover what an armored dinosaur ate for its last meal

Geology Page - June 6, 2020

What the ankylosaur Bissektipelta archibaldi might look like. Credit: the authors of the paper.

Palaeontologists create most detailed virtual 3-D-model of endocranial cast and blood...

Geology Page - June 6, 2020

The fossilized jaw of an Overoraptor chimentoi, a new species of dinosaur discovered in Argentine Patagonia

Argentine paleontologists discover small carnivorous dinosaur

Geology Page - June 6, 2020

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Nevada home to 246M-year-old fossil of pregnant ichthyosaur

Geology Page - June 6, 2020

The attached image shows Wightia declivirostris flying over an oxbow lake in the valley of the ancient Wessex River that flowed from Devon to the Isle of Wight. Credit: Megan Jacobs

Chinese pterodactyl wings its way to the United Kingdom

Geology Page - May 28, 2020

Big theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus ate pretty much everything -- including each other, according to a new study. Credit: PLOS ONE

In stressed ecosystems Jurassic dinosaurs turned to scavenging, maybe even cannibalism

Geology Page - May 28, 2020

Original artwork depicting the moment the asteroid struck in present-day Mexico. Credit: Chase Stone

Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle

Geology Page - May 26, 2020

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