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"Stegosaurus" skeleton Apex is auctioned for $44.6 million (£34 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, United States, the most ever paid for a fossil.
2024-07-18

A dinosaur fossil, given the name "Fujianvenator", is discovered in Fujian, China. The dinosaur has two legs and two other limbs, possibly wings, thereby giving insight into the evolution of birds.
2023-09-6

A research team based at the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in Utah announces that the many "Teratophoneus" fossils unearthed at the site provide proof that, contrary to popular belief, "Tyrannosaurus" dinosaurs hunted in packs rather than individually.
2021-04-19

Palaeontologists at the University of Southampton report the discovery of a new species of theropod dinosaur called "Vectaerovenator inopinatus" on the Isle of Wight, England. The species belongs to the same group as the "Tyrannosaurus" and modern-day birds. It lived roughly 115 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.
2020-08-12

A fossil from a new species of "tyrannosaur" named "Moros intrepidus" is discovered in the U.S. state of Utah. Scientists are using the find to better understand how "Tyrannosaurus rex" evolved during the Cretaceous period.
2019-02-21

Researchers discover that the diversity of frogs is a direct result of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
2017-07-4

"Scientific Reports" publishes Carthage College research that "Daspletosaurus horneri", from the same Tyrannosauridae family as the Tyrannosaurus rex, had a sensitive nose. The research describes that foramina sprouted from the trigeminal nerve at the snout and jaws possibly enabling the behavioral functions of exploration, courtship, nesting, foreplay, and parental investment.
2017-03-30

Italy recalls its ambassador to Egypt for consultations in protest over the lack of progress in a probe into the fate of murdered Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni. "We want only one thing, the truth about what happened to Giulio," Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Friday.
2016-04-8

A researcher at the University of Cambridge predicts that in about four years, the Arctic polar ice cap will melt completely during the summer months.
2012-09-21

"Australopithecus sediba" skeletons found at the Cradle of Humankind site in South Africa are dated at 2 million years old, suggesting that the hominid species could be a transitional fossil between apes and humans.
2011-09-9