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An imagined scene from the end of the Cretaceous Period, more than 66 million years ago, has the newly identified softshell turtle Hutchemys walkerorum dwelling alongside iconic species from the Age of the Dinosaurs. (Image: Sergey Krasovskiy)

Newly identified softshell turtle lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops

Geology Page - March 13, 2022

Zircon Crystals of the mineral zircon are tiny time-capsules that record the age of many events in Earth’s history. Dating zircon crystals like this was one of the two methods used to calculate the age of the Hiawatha impact crater. Illustration: Gavin Kenny, Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct

Evidence suggests an asteroid impact that killed off most dinosaurs might have happened in spring. Credit: Joschua Knüppe

The reign of the dinosaurs ended in spring

Researchers discover first evidence indicating dinosaur respiratory infection

First evidence indicating dinosaur respiratory infection

Images of different fossil remains of Abditosaurus kuehnei at the Orcau-1 site (a), the excavation process (b and c) and the neck after fossil preparation (d).

Large new titanosaurian dinosaur from the Pyrenees

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...

Geology Page - September 26, 2020

Sauropod Embryo. Credit: University of Manchester

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

Geology Page - September 1, 2020

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

How to weigh a dinosaur

Geology Page - September 1, 2020

Mukawaryu

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

lizard

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

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