Scientists have identified the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Southeast Asia from fossils found in Thailand, shedding new light on prehistoric life in the region. The massive long-necked herbivore, a sauropod named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, is estimated to have lived between 100 and 120 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. Researchers say it is the […]
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Dinosaur extinction began 2 mln years earlier than previously believed: study
BEIJING: A recent study has revealed that dinosaurs had been on the road to extinction much earlier than previously believed, and the catastrophic impact 66 million years ago might have only been the last straw. According to the study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United […]
Man dies trapped inside dinosaur statue in Spain
A 40-year-old man died after becoming trapped inside a large statue of a dinosaur in a Barcelona suburb, Spanish police said Tuesday. It is not clear why the man went inside the decorative stegosaurus located outside a disused cinema in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, but there is no suspicion of foul play, said a spokeswoman […]
Meet the T. rex cousin who you could literally look down on
History’s most frightening dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus rex, came from a long line of pipsqueaks. Scientists have identified a new cousin of the T. rex as a dinosaur that only reached the 3-foot height of a toddler. If it stretched its duck-billed head, an adult human maybe “would be looking at it in the eye,” said […]