dinosaur species

DNA analysis may decode how dinosaurs looked

The discovery suggests that scientists had the opportunity to make a chromosome preparation from a theropod dinosaur, it might have looked very similar to that of a modern-day ostrich, duck or chicken. 

Aug 27, 2018, 16:11 PM IST

Dinosaur used colours to hide from predators, says study

Experts arrived at the study after discovering a small dinosaur fossil in China, which also helped to dispel stereotypes about the creatures.

Oct 27, 2017, 12:37 PM IST

Researchers identify dinosaur species that roosted like modern birds' 70 million years ago

New remains from the region suggest that at least some dinosaurs likely roosted together to sleep, quite possibly as a family, much like many modern birds do today, researchers said.

Aug 28, 2017, 15:20 PM IST

China: Scientists find mammoth bird-like dinosaur species

Measuring about eight metres and weighing up to three tonnes, the new species named Beibeilong sinensis or baby dragon from China, lived about 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.

May 10, 2017, 14:30 PM IST

Researchers find earliest relative of Brachiosaurus dinosaur

Researchers from Imperial College London and their colleagues in Europe discovered the new species, named Vouivria damparisensis, after re-examining an overlooked museum fossil.

May 04, 2017, 01:04 AM IST

China: Team of paleontologists discover new bird-like dinosaur species

The three-feet fossilised skeleton, named Jianianhualong tengi, is a troodontidae -- a family of bird-like theropod dinosaurs.

May 03, 2017, 18:32 PM IST

New 125 million-year-old species of herbivores dinosaurs discovered!

The bones of the dinosaur called Moabosaurus Utahensis were assembled using bones extracted over the course of four decades.

Apr 16, 2017, 22:42 PM IST

China has been hiding what may have been an actual Jurassic Park!

The survey covered an area of 11,000 square kilometres in Zhejiang. Scientists identified eight new species among the fossils.

Feb 21, 2017, 14:41 PM IST

China identifies dinosaur with bow-shaped hip bone

Paleontologists in China's Shandong province have named a new dinosaur species in the genus leptoceratops after its unique hip bone.

Dec 31, 2015, 19:21 PM IST

New dinosaur species found in Spain

Named Morelladon beltrani, the new dinosaur species is a medium-sized styracosternan ornithopod around six metres long and 2.5 metres high.

Dec 17, 2015, 17:30 PM IST