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Nearly complete dinosaur fossil sells for record £34m | Science & Tech News
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A nearly complete fossil of a stegosaurus has sold for a record $44.6m (£34.2m), becoming the most valuable fossil ever sold at auction. An anonymous US buyer outbid six others for the set of bones, dubbed Apex, at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday. They paid an apex price, beating the previous auction record of…
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Most complete dinosaur fossil in a century discovered on the Isle of Wight | Science & Tech News
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The fossil of a herbivorous dinosaur, as big as an American male bison, has been discovered on the Isle of Wight. It is the most complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in the UK in a century, with 149 bones in total. The hefty dinosaur, now called Comptonatus chasei, roamed southern England around 125 million years ago…
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‘Teenage T. Rex’ skulls belong to different dinosaur, scientists say after decades of debate | Science & Tech News
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Fossils once thought to be the skulls of teenage Tyrannosaurus Rexes actually belonged to a different species of dinosaur, scientists have concluded. First unearthed in Montana, US, in 1942, the remains have been the subject of debate as to whether they were from junior T. Rexes or from Nanotyrannus lancensis – smaller relatives of the…
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Giant dinosaur footprint the largest ever found in Yorkshire, say experts | Science & Tech News
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A giant dinosaur footprint discovered on the Yorkshire coastline is the largest ever found in the region. At almost a metre long, the footprint was left by a meat-eating theropod from the Jurassic period. The huge creature was likely crouching down or resting around 166 million years ago when it left the marking, according to…
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Scientists uncover first record of a dinosaur eating a mammal in fossil from 120 million years ago | UK News
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Scientists believe they have uncovered the first known incident of a mammal being eaten by a dinosaur. The foot of an animal that lived 120 million years ago has been found inside the ribcage of a dinosaur, throwing light on the diet of prehistoric creatures. Palaeontologists in the UK analysed fossil remains of a small,…
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Life finds a way: How climate change helped dinosaur success story | Science & Tech News
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Climate change played a key role in the ascendancy of the earliest dinosaurs, according to new research. Ancestors of the recognisably long-necked diplodocus and brachiosaurus were particular beneficiaries of shifting environmental conditions in the late Triassic and early Jurassic period, some 201 million years ago. While the transition between the two eras did see a…
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Patagotitan mayorum: Colossal dinosaur that dwarfs Dippy the Diplodocus to go on display in UK | Science & Tech News
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One of the biggest creatures to have walked the Earth will go on display at the Natural History Museum next year. Patagotitan mayorum, a member of the titanosaur sauropod family, was four times heavier than Dippy the Diplodocus and 12 metres longer than Hope the blue whale, other inhabitants of the museum. Weighing in at…
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Scientists find answer to 66 million-year-old mystery over dinosaur extinction meteorite | Science & Tech News
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The meteorite that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs instantly ignited wildfires up to thousands of miles from its impact zone, scientists have discovered. The six-mile-wide meteorite struck the Yucatan peninsula, in what is now Mexico, at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to…
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Skeleton of 82ft-long dinosaur found in man’s backyard in Portugal | World News
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The skeleton of an 82ft-long dinosaur has been discovered in a man’s backyard in central Portugal. Palaeontologists from Spain and Portugal working on the site in the city of Pombal believe it could be the remains of the biggest sauropod dinosaur to be found in Europe. Sauropods are plant-eating, four-legged dinosaurs characterised by long necks…
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Texas drought uncovers 113 million-year-old dinosaur footprints left by cousin of T-Rex | World News
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Dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago have been revealed in Texas after a severe drought dried up a river. The footprints – left by a single acrocanthosaurus – had not been seen for more than 20 years. Footage of the find at the Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose was filmed by Paul…