On July 17, Apex, bones of a cool stegosaurus dinosaur fossil, made waves in a sale for a staggering $44.6 million at Sotheby’s in New York City. The lucky buyer? Billionaire Ken Griffin, the CEO of Citadel. He plans to loan this incredible piece of history to American institutions for display, which sounds awesome. But […]
Dubai: Ready to embark on a spell-binding new dinosaur trek, a sequel to your adventure in the Lost Valley? IMG Worlds of Adventure, Dubai’s largest mega-themed indoor amusement destination has come up with another roaring experience featuring ‘life-sized’ beasts of the past. The central lobby of the fully air-conditioned theme park with over 1.5 million […]
Earth: An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth’s surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc on the planet. It isn’t the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction, but a previously unknown crater 248 miles off the coast of West Africa that was created right around […]
New York: The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago is said to be up for auction in New York this month, Sotheby’s announced. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby’s natural history auction on July 28 as per the auction house. The Gorgosaurus was an apex […]
New York: Dinosaurs became adapted to the cold weather in polar regions before a mass extinction event paved the way for their reign at the end of the Triassic as per a study of ancient mass extinction. The conventional theory of how the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago: in Earth’s fiery collision with a […]
This massive creature is named “Hector,” he’s over a100 million years old, and his fossils sold for more than $12.4 million (AED45m) in an auction at Christie’s. Hector is the most complete skeleton of Deinonychus antirrhopus ever found, as per Christie’s. The specimen, excavated in Montana in 2013, dates back to the early Cretaceous period: […]
Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists. Some dinosaurs had spiked tails they could use as stabbing weapons and others had tails with clubs. The new species, described in a study in the journal Nature, has something never seen before on any animal: […]
The first tracings of dinosaurs in Missouri were found in the 1940s on the Chronister family’s property when they were digging a well. Nearly 60 years later, another set of fossils from the same species were uncovered about 50 feet away. After comparing and matching the tail vertebrates of these discoveries, paleontologists described them as […]
Crystal Palace Park, in south London, still hosts the world’s first dinosaur sculptures. They were created in the 1850s based on what was, at the time, very recent scientific discoveries: fossils, unearthed in England just decades earlier. Scientists struggled to make sense of the creatures, and the sculptures were the first attempt to visualize them […]
If you’re into dinosaurs, you too could own a 66-million-year-old giant Triceratops fossil if you have an estimated 1.2 million euros (AED5million). The fossil who has been named Big John’s skull is 2.62 meters (8 feet 7 inches) long and 2 meters (6 feet 7 inches) wide, while his two largest horns are 1.1 meters […]
A young girl found a dinosaur footprint on Welsh beach and made a major discovery. According to The Independent, Lily Wilder found footprints while walking on the beach near Barry, South Wales. While walking with her father and their pet dog on the beach in Wales, she found a well-preserved dinosaur footprint, which excited paleontologists […]
