Chinese palaeontologists described a dinosaur tail exceptionally well preserved in amber. The specimen is estimated to be more than 99 million years old. On 9 December 2016, CNN reported the discovery, which attracted international attention as a significant palaeontological find […]
Although birds are known to belong within the dinosaur evolutionary tree, understanding how wings developed has been difficult when only skeletal remains were available. Researchers used a technique that illuminated otherwise barely visible traces of soft tissue […]
More than 20 types of dinosaur tracks were discovered in Australia in an area described by researchers as a “Jurassic Park”. Palaeontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University studied tracks preserved in approximately 140-million-year-old rocks in the Kimberley region […]
The year 2016 yielded numerous significant palaeontological discoveries relating to dinosaurs, from newly described species to fossilised brain tissue and a dinosaur tail exceptionally well preserved in amber. These findings offered new insights for those interested in prehistoric life […]
