In the heart of Utah’s high desert, a sun-bleached ridge hides a puzzle that has nagged at paleontologists for generations. How did so many dinosaurs – especially big predators – end up tangled together in one place, their bones jumbled like driftwood after a storm? The site, anchored by the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry within Utah’s ...
For more than 150 million years, science didn’t notice a small, fast-moving dinosaur that lived in the floodplains of Jurassic North America. It lived in the shadow of giants like Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. Palaeontologists are now having to rethink what they thought they knew about how dinosaurs evolved because of a new species called Enigmacursor ...
Dinosaur fossils have captivated our minds for decades by providing windows into a lost world of tall predators and gentle giants. But suppose these old bones contain more than just paleontological marvels? Imagine if they could open medical discoveries in our cancer fight. Published in Biology, a groundbreaking study reveals that dinosaur fossils especially their ...
Gargi Chakravorty
