T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips
30 March 2023
Just about every popular depiction of predatory dinosaurs is wrong, because their teeth were probably mostly obscured from view rather than being bared ready to strike
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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
7 December 2022
The conventional view of the age of the dinosaurs is that mammals lived in the shadows until the day the asteroid hit, but a new analysis shows they were already evolutionarily primed to take over the world
How did so many giant meat-eating dinosaurs co-exist in the Jurassic?
5 December 2022
It took a lot of meat to feed even one species of large carnivorous dinosaur, so how did several survive side-by-side in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods without starving? We might finally have the answer
Controversial idea that T. rex was three species comes under fire
25 July 2022
A study that proposed Tyrannosaurus rex is three separate dinosaur species has been strongly disputed by another group of researchers, who say there was just one iconic tyrant lizard king
Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex
7 July 2022
A dinosaur discovered in Argentina has been identified as a new species. Meraxes gigas lived 20 million years before T. rex, but had a similarly large body, sharp teeth and proportionately small arms
Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species
1 March 2022
After analysing the teeth and thigh bones of 38 T. rex fossils, some researchers propose reclassifying them as three different species, but others are unconvinced
T. rex with feathers: China’s fossils are rewriting the dinosaur story
13 October 2021
Twenty-five years ago, Chinese scientists revealed the first feathered dinosaur. Since then, they have unearthed a treasure trove of exquisitely preserved specimens that put dinosaurs in a whole new light
Bird-like dinosaurs that lost a finger show evolution in action
6 October 2020
Bird-like dinosaurs called oviraptorids normally had three fingers, but skeletons rescued from fossil poachers reveal a new species with just two
The invisible superpower that helped dinosaurs conquer the world
29 July 2020
From beginnings as skulking, cat-sized reptiles, dinosaurs came to rule Earth for 100 million years – but how? Their secret wasn’t teeth or claws, but something deep inside them
The first dinosaurs may have laid soft eggs without hard shells
17 June 2020
Palaeontologists have long assumed that all dinosaurs laid hard-shelled eggs, but fossils of soft-shelled dinosaur eggs discovered in Mongolia suggest otherwise
