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Steven Spielberg executive produces new series, which dramatises five global extinction events

‘Megamonodontium mccluskyi’ is believed to be the largest spider fossil to be found in Australia

Talk about flower power. 

The discovery suggests Europe had its own family of small herbivorous dinosaurs distinct from Asia and North America.

‘While our evidence is suggestive, we do not consider it conclusive as yet’

Researchers reveal that necks of Plesiosaurs, which was five times the size of their trunk, were used for chasing speedy fishes

Fujianvenator prodigiosus, a pheasant-sized dinosaur, sheds light on the evolutionary stage of birds. It had a puzzling anatomy suggesting it was either a fast runner or lived a lifestyle like a modern wading bird.

In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists from IIT Roorkee have characterised dinosaur fossils from the middle-Jurassic period, found in the Thar desert near the Jaisalmer Basin by the Geological Survey of India. They discovered that they had uncovered remains of a sauropod dinosaur, which is the same…

Findings suggest how country may have been a ‘major centre of dinosaur evolution’