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Learn how newly-discovered dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye helped researchers reconstruct Scotland’s Jurassic past.
The new site features over 130 footprints and trackways, some extending up to 12 meters in length. Jurassic-era dinosaurs ...
BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration announced on Friday that two geoparks in China, one in northwest China's Qinghai Province and another in southwest ...
A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...
Many of the footprints belonged to theropods – meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs. These include morphotype-1a, a ...
Even though the slow-moving herbivores were likely prey for the smaller, sharp-toothed carnivores, said Tone Blakesley, the ...
The researchers said the site provides a “fascinating insight” into the environmental preferences and behaviours of dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic period The footprints were once considered by ...
Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what ...
Unearthed in the El Mers III Formation, the discovery reveals significant details about their development during the Middle Jurassic period, closing a crucial gap in the fossil record. The ...
The discovery, published in Royal Society Open Science, confirms that ceratopsians existed as early as the Middle Jurassic period, approximately 168 million years ago. The discovery was made by ...
It also requires a bit of imagination, he said. During the Middle Jurassic Period, the area would have had a warm, humid tropical climate, rather than the chilled wind and rain that define ...