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Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...

The geological timelines add another layer of evidence against the dinosaur-oil myth. While most dinosaur species roamed the Earth between 230 and 66 million years ago, the organic material ...

Dinosaurs are one of the most successful groups of animals to have roamed the planet. For over 170 million years they dominated the land, from small creatures just a few feet long to some of the ...

Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...

Paleontologists analyze concretions—hard orbs of minerals that can collect around material like bone—and discover fossils of mammals that lived on Earth just after an asteroid killed the ...

Scientists have made new discoveries about the origins of dinosaurs, suggesting they first emerged in dry, arid regions of Gondwana. Research published in Current Biology indicates that volcanic ...