Rare fossil discovery reveals new dinosaur species that specialized in eating fruit

Among the ravenous carnivores and lumbering herbivores that roamed the Cretaceous landscape, another kind of dinosaur was ...
Observer

Sotheby’s Sells “Jodi” the Nanotyrannus for $47.3 Million, Reigniting the Fossil Ownership Debate

The 67-million-year-old skeleton, shown at Frieze Masters in 2023 as a juvenile T. rex with a $20 million asking price, drew ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Remarkable Fossil of a Feathered, Winged Dinosaur Further Hints That Flight Evolved Multiple Times Among the ‘Terrible Lizards’

The fossil belonged to a category of dinosaurs called microraptors, which were bird-like but not ancestors of modern-day avians. A new study found that this group of ancient predators evolved similar ...

17-million-year-old fossil found in Egypt challenges a long-held view of ape origins

A 17-18 million-year-old jaw from Egypt is the first definitive fossil ape from North Africa and challenges East Africa as ...
Science Daily

Ancient ape fossil in Egypt could rewrite the story of human origins

A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of ...

Rare Dinosaur Fossil Sells for $47.3 Million in Just 12 Minutes

The specimen, known as Nanotyrannus, resembles a smaller Tyrannosaurus rex ...
Smithsonian Magazine

After Sitting in a London Museum Since 1924, This Dinosaur Fossil Was Named a New Predatory Species—an ‘Unconquered Female Warrior’

Invictibellatrix amberina was a long-clawed, tiger-size dinosaur that lived around 120 million years ago. It's helping ...
Earth.com

A fossil sat in a London museum drawer for nearly 100 years before scientists realized it was a new dinosaur

A dinosaur skull overlooked for a century at London's Natural History Museum reveals Invictibellatrix, the first known ...
KPBS

An ancient insect fossil hides in plain sight at the San Diego Natural History Museum

In 1985, he remembered handling a 324 million-year-old fossil. It arrived at the museum from west Texas. At the time, the ...