A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

Over the past decade, paleontology has entered a new era of rapid discovery and scientific transformation. Breakthrough fossils unearthed across Asia, South America, North America, and Europe have ...

Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...

Argentinian researchers have described a Carnian theropod with features previously thought to belong only to much later neotheropods, indicating greater early dinosaur diversity than expected as well ...

In the world of paleontology, the biggest bones usually grab the loudest headlines. But a tiny set of fossils unearthed in northern Spain is proving that the smallest players often hide the biggest ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...