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The dinosaur’s name translates to “a giant thunderclap at dawn” in Sesotho, a South African language spoken in the region where the dinosaur’s bone was found. The Jurassic-era animal ...
Jack Horner — the paleontologist who's served as technical advisor on all of the Jurassic Park films — thinks that he can make a real dinosaur in the next five to 10 years. Horner's idea for a ...
The identification and name were announced Thursday in the scientific journal PeerJ. Lokiceratops is from the same family of horned dinosaurs as the triceratops “but from the other side of the ...
Thanks to these unpublished images, researchers can finally study the characteristics of the dinosaur, which was not possible after the loss of the original fossils. The name Tameryraptor ...
The study, published in today's issue of the journal Science, is the first to chart dinosaur survival rates and delve into the biology of the beasts, a co-author of the article said. "We were able ...
A giant, ostrich-like dinosaur and its smaller cousin ... too, and not trying to name a new species on scraps that are probably not that diagnostic," Erickson said. Despite the fossils' poor ...
The local dinosaurs mostly had Chinese names like Huayangosaurus, a relative of the Stegosaurus, but a few were given some very funny names indeed.