Around 67 million years ago in what is now North Dakota, a duck-billed dinosaur keeled over and died, and crocodiles’ ancient relatives descended on the carcass, tearing holes through the skin ...

Scientists examined a dino mummy called "Dakota." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Around 67 million years ago in what is ...

This herbivorous dinosaur, known for its heavy armor and ... leading researchers to theorize that its carcass was carried into the sea during a flooding event and preserved through a process ...

Unhealed bite marks on fossilized dinosaur skin suggest that the animal’s carcass was scavenged before being covered in sediment, researchers report October 12 in PLOS ONE. The finding ...

“This makes sense logically too, because a single sauropod carcass had enough calories to sustain 25 or so allosaurs for weeks or even months, and sauropods were often the most abundant ...

This armored dinosaur is so magnificently preserved that ... Scientists suspect its carcass may have been carried from a river to the sea in a flooding event; it may have bobbed at the surface ...

For instance, some dinosaur fossils feature the remnants of skin ... also provide a unique source of information about the other animals that interacted with a carcass after death." This knowledge, ...

Dinosaurs are difficult to find among the 99 ... Avrahami says, could cause a carcass to rot, pull apart, and scatter. Creating underground refuges could help explain why small, plant-eaters ...

By a stroke of geological luck, sediments rapidly covered much of the carcass and protected the dinosaur, and its dinner, from decay. The resulting fossil, unveiled Friday in the journal Science ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...