Science news articles about 'dinosaur discovery'

... keep looking at fossils we already have sitting in museum collections," he said. "The number of dinosaur discoveries is actually accelerating because we just keep digging up more material to work ...

A horned dinosaur discovered by an Alberta junior high school science teacher in 1972 has been officially named a new species, researchers said Wednesday.

... National Monument was a 190-million-year-old dinosaur "trample surface". "We went through the proper ... Andrew Milner of the St. George (Utah) Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm. They saw ...

... farmer Primo Rivera had long wondered about the dents in a rocky hill near his home. Paleontologists solved the mystery this month: they are fossilized dinosaur footprints -- the oldest in Bolivia.

Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones, including the remains of an enormous "platypus," state press said Tuesday.

Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.

... giant 'reaper' dinosaur so called because it has huge claws shaped like a reaper ... Desert, who were there to dig up aquatic reptile bones. The discovery, published online today in the journal Proceedings ...

For several years, a European amateur science group was on the trail of dinosaur prints and last spring they made a significant discovery. read more

... led the research, said the species had a "very significant position in the family tree of dinosaurs".The creature, which was found in South Africa five years ago, weighed about 500kg (1,100lb) and ...