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Wed, 2021-03-17

Just how big was the prehistoric super-sized shark Megalodon? Scientists have been debating the point for more than 100 years....

Wed, 2021-03-17

A data leak has confirmed that Fortnite Season 6 will be adding dinosaurs to the game, alongside tameable wolves, chickens and wild boars.

Tue, 2021-03-16

A new genus and species of aristonectine elasmosaurid plesiosaur has been described from a partial skeleton found in central Chile.

Tue, 2021-03-16

AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM in Toronto, one specimen dwarfs everything else in it: a 27-and-half-meter long dinosaur skeleton. His name is officially ROM 3670, but he’s more commonly known as Gordo, and he’s the lar...

Mon, 2021-03-15

Decades later, 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom corrected an oversight the first Jurassic Park movie made in relation to...

Mon, 2021-03-15

Jurassic Park changes the lawyer, Donald Gennaro, from the book; here's why director Steven Spielberg's characteriza...

Tue, 2021-03-16

Sauropods were previously thought to have had their heyday in the Late Jurassic period. Recent fossil evidence says it was probably...

Mon, 2021-03-15

Spectacular fossil plants preserved within a volcanic ash fall in China have shed light on an evolutionary race 300 million years ago, which was eventually won by the seed-bearing plants that dominate so much of the Earth today....

Sat, 2021-03-13

Jurassic Park fits all of the on paper definitions of a horror movie, but it's not generally thought of as one because of its tone and target audience.

Sat, 2021-03-13

Paleontologists from Canada, the United States and South Africa have unearthed the fossilized remains of larval and juvenile forms of four lamprey species that lived during the...

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