Dinosaur fossils had never been reported there before, scientists said.... Xiaolin Wang The dinosaur fossils before the collection.... Maurilio Oliveira Hamititan, left, and Silutitan walking over a nesting area of the pterosaur Hamipterus....

bones of a young diplodocid – a young long-necked sauropod dinosaur like Brontosaurus, allows

Dinosaurs suffered from the flu, a new study has showed, after researchers found the first ever evidence of the prehistoric beasts being plagued by respiratory infection. Scientists studying the fossilised remains of a juvenile diplodocid — a large, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur with trunk-like legs and a powerful tail — discovered the Jurassic behemoth was suffering from a respiratory infection which led to a pneumonia-like illness. Its symptoms would have included a cough, a runny nose, f

19, 2023, 12: 00 a.m.ET The Thar Desert today is a scorching region in western India’s Rajasthan state.... They are ubiquitous among fossil beds from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods.... The dicraeosaurids are distinguished by spikes on the back of their necks, and have been unearthed in Africa, the Americas and China....

A man who took his dog out for a walk in France two years ago made an astounding discovery – one that he's been keeping a secret, until now.In 2022, Damien Boschetto stumbled upon a massive, 70 million-year-old fossil that turned out to be a nearly complete skeleton of a long-necked titanosaur, he told ABC News. Boschetto, now 25 years old, said the unexpected discovery was made in the forests of Montouliers, near his home in Cruzy, a village in southern France." The territory around Cruzy is ri

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