The Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, famous for its exceptionally well preserved feathered dinosaurs and birds, consists primarily of thinly layered lacustrine beds intercalated with volcanic ...

Fossilized remains of a new herbivorous dinosaur species that lived 193 million years ago have been unearthed in southwestern China. Paleontologists from Yunnan University have named this newly ...

A team of Chinese paleontologists discovered a new dinosaur species, Archaeocursor asiaticus, in southwestern China, offering fresh insights into the early evolution of ornithischian dinosaurs in Asia ...

Taphonomic biases dictate how organisms are represented in the fossil record, but their effect on studies of vertebrate diversity dynamics is poorly studied. In contrast to the high diversity and ...

The postpubic rod of ornithischians is homologous with the pubis of birds and other reptiles and the prepubic process, that was not specifically developed for abdominal support, was probably formed ...

Palaeontologists have confirmed the presence of another important dinosaur fossil in Pahang, Malaysia. UM’s palaeontologists, Masatoshi Sone and Teng Yu He, reveal that the dinosaur remain is ...

Paleontologists working high in a remote range of Antarctic mountains have found a new species of primitive dinosaur dating back to nearly 200 million years ago — a time when one of the coldest parts ...

The hips of the ornithischian dinosaur Stegosaurus (left) and the saurischian dinosaur Allosaurus (right) Modified from Seeley, 1888 Time has not been very kind to classic dinosaur science. As new ...

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Scientists have solved the puzzle of the so-called "Frankenstein dinosaur", which seems to consist of body parts from unrelated species. A new study suggests that it is in fact the missing link ...

The National History Museum in London is displaying Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a new dinosaur species, researchers said. Screengrab from the Natural History Museum, London's Facebook page A new ...