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Dinosaur fossil found in Cambodia
Vietnam plus   01 November 2022   Cambodia   Koh Por island  
Photo courtesy of Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment
<p>Phnom Penh (VNA) &ndash; A fossil unearthed on Koh Por island in Koh Kong province of Cambodia has been identified as the bones of a dinosaur, Hun Marady, director of provincial environment department was quoted by the country's Agence Kampuchea Presse ...
Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa
Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi, which has been discovered in Zimbabwe/ Andrey Atuchin
<p>The remains of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur has been unearthed in northern Zimbabwe. It is part of a huge assemblage of fossils from the Late Triassic that could help us understand how the period&rsquo;s climate influenced the dispersal of early ...
Portuguese man accidentally uncovers a 25-metre-long dinosaur skeleton in his own backyard
abc.net.au   27 August 2022   Portugal  
Researchers recently spent 10 days examining the fossil.(Twitter: Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon)
<p>A 25-metre fossilised dinosaur skeleton was the last thing a Portugal man expected to uncover in his own backyard in 2017, but now researchers believe he may have stumbled upon the largest of its kind in Europe. <br />While carrying out construction five ...
Dinosaur finding hints at why T-rex had small arms
BBC NEWS   08 July 2022   Argentina  
An artist's reconstruction of Meraxes gigas
<p>A team of scientists in Argentina say they have discovered a new giant predatory dinosaur that had a huge head - but tiny arms for its size.<br />Writing in the Current Biology journal, the scientists say extensive skeletal remains of a previously unknown ...
Amateur fossil hunter discovers 84-million-year-old fossilized turtle on Vancouver Island
Derek Larson/The Canadian Press
<p>Russell Ball was taking one of his usual walks along Vancouver Island&rsquo;s Puntledge River on a cool, grey day in January when he noticed something out of the ordinary.<br />As he knelt down and began chipping away around the patch of brown, he felt ...
Jurassic Coast has biggest landslide ‘in 60 years’ as beach buried in rubble
Metro   14 April 2021   UK   Jurassic Coast  
A large part of the beach has been blocked off by the landslide (Picture: Getty/Google Maps)
<p>A major landslide has seen 4,000 tonnes of rock plunge down onto a beach on the Jurassic Coast. Rubble has completely blocked a section of the beach after the 430ft sandstone cliff gave way on Monday night causing boulders the size of cars to plummet near ...
A newfound feathered dinosaur sported fuzz and weird rods on its shoulders
Science News   14 December 2020   Brazil  
© Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020
<p>The fossil of a chicken-sized, meat eater from Brazil that had a mane of fluffy filaments and a pair of stiff, ribbon-like streamers emerging from both shoulders is the first dinosaur with feathers ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere.<br />Named ...
Scientists discover 115-million-year-old fossil of new dinosaur species in Brazil
DW   10 July 2020   Brazil  
Scientists believe the newly-discovered Aratasaurus museunacionali roamed the Earth 115 million years ago
<p>A team of Brazilian researchers announced on Friday the discovery of a 115-million-year-old fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of dinosaur in the northeastern state of Ceara.<br />The "Aratasaurus museunacionali" is a previously unknown species ...
Earliest known skull of Homo erectus unearthed by Australian-led team
The Guardian   02 April 2020   South Africa  
Homo erectus cranium outline. The earliest known skull of Homo erectus has been unearthed by an Australian-led team in South Africa. Photograph: Supplied by La Trobe University
<p>The earliest known skull of Homo erectus has been unearthed by an Australian-led team of researchers who have dated the fossil at two million years old, showing the first of our ancestors existed up to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.<br>The ...
The World's Smallest-Known Dinosaur Measured Less Than 2.25 Inches!
DOGO news   24 March 2020   World  
The skull of the world's tiniest dinosaur was found perfectly preserved in a pebble-sized piece of amber (Credit: Lida Xing)
<p>Over the years, researchers have unearthed fossils of many of the estimated 2,468 dinosaur species that roamed Earth during the Mesozoic era, which spanned from between 252 million years ago to about 66 million years ago. However, few can compare to the ...