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Crystal-stuffed dinosaur eggs the size of cannonballs discovered in China
By Ben Turner published
East China’s volcanic terrain is ideal for fossil hunters, who discovered the unusual eggs
Ginormous Jurassic fossil in Portugal may be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe
By Joanna Thompson published
While researchers have not yet identified the species of an enormous newfound dinosaur, the sauropod is already breaking size records.
Rare fossils reveal basketball-like skin on duck-billed dinosaur
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
The juvenile hadrosaur is impeccably well preserved.
Oldest African dinosaur ever found unearthed in Zimbabwe
By Joanna Thompson last updated
Meet Mbiresaurus raathi, the oldest African dinosaur (and one of the world's earliest) whose neighbors lived in Brazil.
Did the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs have a sibling? Crater in West Africa hints maybe.
By Stephanie Pappas published
A 66 million-year-old impact crater has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about just how many deadly space rocks the dinosaurs had to deal with.
'Very weird' ankylosaur's tail looked like an Aztec war club
By Laura Geggel last updated
Paleontologists in Chile have found the remains of an ankylosaur that represents a new dinosaur lineage.
Small, prickly dinosaur discovered in South America reveals an unknown lineage
By Stephanie Pappas published
An armored dinosaur that weighed as much as a housecat has been discovered in South America. Though it resembles a primitive relative of ankylosaurus, it came from late in dinosaur history.
Not just tiny arms: T. rex also had super small eyes to accommodate its big bite
By Nicoletta Lanese published
T. rex may have evolved thin eye sockets to help handle its bite force.
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