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Dinosaur skull found in New Mexico is a cousin of T. rex — and even bigger, experts say. Julia Daye. January 12, 2024 at 1:48 PM. Photo by Mac Cervantes on Unsplash.
Dreadnoughtus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur containing a single species, Dreadnoughtus schrani. D. schrani is known from two partial skeletons discovered in Upper Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian; approximately 76–70 Ma) rocks of the Cerro Fortaleza Formation in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
'Discoveries like Sarmientosaurus happen once in a lifetime,' paleontologist Rubén Martínez said in a statement.
Five new partial skulls of Maiasaura peeblesorum, providing information on the acquisition of the crest and changes to the surrounding cranial elements during the ontogeny of this dinosaur, are described from the Campanian Two Medicine Formation (Montana, United States) by McFeeters, Evans & Maddin (2021).
Mainly known from a single skull and a few extremely thick skull roofs (at 22 cm or 9 in thick), Pachycephalosaurus is estimated to have reached 4.5 m (15 ft) long and weighed 370–450 kg (820–990 lb). More complete fossils would come to be found in the following years.
Researchers have uncovered a "dinosaur highway" after hundreds of giant prehistoric footprints dating back 166 million years were found in an English quarry.
Deinocheirus (/ ˌ d aɪ n oʊ ˈ k aɪ r ə s / DY-no-KY-rəs) is a genus of large ornithomimosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous around 70 million years ago. In 1965, a pair of large arms, shoulder girdles, and a few other bones of a new dinosaur were first discovered in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.
The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is not only a member of a new species — it's also the only one found on the planet whose bones are green, according ...