Imagine a creature so enormous, so mind-bogglingly vast, that it needed not one, but two brains just to function. For decades, this idea captured the imaginations of kids, scientists, and movie-goers alike. Picture a massive dinosaur, lumbering across prehistoric landscapes, with a brain in its head and another in its tail—a bizarre backup system from ...
The discovery of Zhongyuansaurus junchangi, an new species of ankylosaurid from the Henan Province of China, adds a new dimension to the history of armored dinosaurs. It was an herbivore, as well as heavily armored, and lived during the Early Cretaceous period roughly 113-100 million years ago. Its evolutionary peculiarities included a bizzare ‘swallowtail’ tail ...
This summer, the latest installment of the Jurassic World franchise, titled Rebirth, will showcase familiar patterns from the franchise while introducing towering titanosaurs and mutant dinosaurs as well as the beloved T. rex. However, bringing such creatures to life on screen in a tangible manner is Dr. Steve Brusatte’s work. Paleontologist Brusatte fixes the monsters ...
A creature straight from prehistory swarms through the underbrush in razor-sharp form and is decorated by bony crested in the forests that lie in Australia in the Australian and New Guinea. It is often referred to as the “modern-day dinosaur,” the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuaries) is more than a bird, it’s an actual relic of ...
Deep in Mongolia’s windswept deserts, a long-forgotten fossil has surfaced from the shadows of prehistory exposing a vital missing link in the narrative of the most terrifying predators to have ever trotted the planet. Meet Khan khuluu mongoliensis, the “Dragon Prince of Mongolia,” a recently discovered tyrannosaur that fills in between early, small-sized hunters and ...
Whether a dinosaur enthusiast or a curious mind, the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is about to showcase an extraordinary exhibit that will captivate both. “Gnatalie,” a giant dinosaur skeleton characterized by her size and unusually green bones, was found in Bluff, Utah in 2007. This 150-million-year-old specimen may even be a whole new ...
