New research confirms that Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex, but a predatory species native to the Late Cretaceous period.

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter ...

Paleontologist Peter Makovicky is seen at the excavation site in Argentina's northern Patagonia region where fossils of the Cretaceous Period meat-eating dinosaur Meraxes gigas, Akiko Shinya via ...

Huge meat-eating dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey shared the same watering holes on Skye 167 million years ago, say scientists. University of Edinburgh researchers examined dozens of dinosaur ...

WASHINGTON — A fossil unearthed in Argentina of a newly identified species of meat-eating dinosaur is providing insight into a poorly understood group of Cretaceous Period predators, thanks not only ...

Over 70 new species, from insects to dinosaurs, were identified in 2025 by combining fieldwork, museum collections, and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tyrannosaurus subdued prey with raw power, using bone-crushing bite force. But other meat-eating dinosaurs that rivaled T. rex in size used different approaches. Giganotosaurus ...

A new analysis of the bite strength of 18 species of carnivorous dinosaurs shows that while the Tyrannasaurus rex skull was optimized for quick, strong bites like a crocodile, other giant, predatory ...

Balaur bondoc, as it’s called, is the first predatory dinosaur found to live in Europe during the final 60 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs. Although short and stocky, it still had large, deadly, ...

Fossil footprints discovered in Canada show that different dinosaur species sometimes herded together, shedding more light on social interaction among the prehistoric beasts. The footprints at the ...