Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

More proof that dinosaurs roamed the Western Cape comes from fossils found in the area. Cretaceous-age bones have been ...

In the kits, the coprolite (1), theropod track (17), and synapsid track (18) are trace fossils. Unaltered hard parts - The body fossil is made up of exactly the same material as when it entered the ...

This study, which is published in PLOS ONE today (Wednesday 25th October), also reveals that these footprints make up the largest theropod tracks in Africa. The tracks were found on an ancient land ...

These finds rewrite the evolutionary history of theropod dinosaurs, uncovering a predator hierarchy unique to Cretaceous Australia. The research, led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and ...

As the continent broke apart, dinosaur evolution changed and diverged with it. In South America, for example, theropods like carcharodontosaurs dominated the predator hierarchy above megaraptorids.