Dinosaurs were generally huge, but a new study of the unusual alvarezsaurs show that they reduced in size about 100 million years ago when they became specialized ant-eaters. Dinosaurs were generally ...

The meat-eating dinosaurs known as theropods that roamed the ancient Earth ranged in size from the bus-sized T. rex to the smaller, dog-sized Velociraptor. Scientists puzzling over how such wildly ...

A hell ant that lived 99 million years ago has been discovered trapped in a piece of amber, in the process of killing a prehistoric extinct cockroach relative. The ant, Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri, is ...

Paleontologist David Hone has been on a hot streak lately. Earlier this month he and his colleagues described the new predatory dinosaur Linheraptor, and just last week he was part of another team of ...

A new pachycephalosaur, officially named Zavacephale rinpoche, was described in the journal Nature. The word rinpoche is ...

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Dinosaurs were generally huge, but a new study of the unusual alvarezsaurs show that they reduced in size about 100 million years ago when they became specialised ant-eaters. The new work is led by ...