Unearthing a 166‑Million‑Year‑Old Footprint Site
Britain’s Jurassic Highway It’s not every day you get to walk in the footsteps of giants. Yet that’s exactly what happened at Dewars Farm Quarry in…
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When Dinosaurs Herded Like Wildebeest
Mixed‑Species Trackways in Canada Imagine watching a procession of horned dinosaurs marching across a floodplain, an armoured ankylosaur lumbering alongside them and two tyrannosaurs passing…
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A Fleeting Glimpse into the Cretaceous
A Purple Footprint on the Isle of Wight On a windswept February morning in 2025, fossil tour guide Joe Thompson spotted something extraordinary on the Isle of…
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Apex: The $44.6 Million Stegosaurus That Broke Auction Records
In July 2024 the fossil market was rocked by a sale unlike any other: Apex, a nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton excavated from Colorado’s Morrison Formation, sold…
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This Juvenile Carnivore Fetched $30.5 Million
Inside the Ceratosaurus Sale Just a year after the Apex sale, another headline‑grabbing auction took place. A juvenile skeleton of Ceratosaurus, a predatory dinosaur from…
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Enigmacursor: The Puzzling Runner of the Jurassic
Sometimes it takes decades for a fossil to reveal its secrets. In 2025, palaeontologists announced Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a small ornithischian dinosaur from the Morrison Formation of Colorado….
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Musankwa Sanyatiensis
Zimbabwe’s Fourth Dinosaur and a Window into the Mid‑Zambezi Basin Not all great dinosaur discoveries come from well‑known fossil hotspots. In 2024 palaeontologists working near Lake Kariba…
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Comptonatus Chasei
Britain’s Most Complete Dinosaur Skeleton in a CenturY In July 2024 researchers announced Comptonatus chasei, a new iguanodontian dinosaur and the most complete land‑dwelling dinosaur skeleton discovered…
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Loki’s Horned Face
The Ceratopsian With Blade‑Like Horns Horned dinosaurs are famous for their elaborate headgear, but a 2024 discovery takes ornamentation to another level. Lokiceratops rangiformis—named for the…
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Spicomellus Afer
The Ankylosaur With a Spiked Collar The armour‑plated ankylosaurs are often pictured as tank‑like dinosaurs covered in bony plates and wielding heavy tail clubs. Spicomellus afer…
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Ahvaytum Bahndooiveche
THE Earliest Dinosaur in the Northern Hemisphere When most people imagine the dawn of the dinosaurs, they picture the Triassic landscapes of South America. A…
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Zavacephale Rinpoche
Oldest Dome‑Headed Dinosaur Pushes Back the Clock Pachycephalosaurs—the dome‑headed dinosaurs immortalised in films—are usually found in the Late Cretaceous. A stunning fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert,…