A fossil of the 23-foot-long predator could help unlock secrets of an order of dinosaurs that remain poorly understood. By Asher Elbein In 2019, a team of researchers uncovered a 70-million-year-old ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Paleontologists have discovered a carnivorous dinosaur in central ...

A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly its last feast. A reconstruction of the newly discovered megaraptor ...

An artistic rendering of a Joaquinraptor casali with a croc leg in its mouth. Andrew McAfee / Carnegie Museum Paleontologists working in Argentina have revealed one of the most complete megaraptor ...

The name 'Megaraptor' almost sounds made up - the product of a hollywood monster movie; a Jurassic World hybrid dinosaur, perhaps. While scientists do tend to give dinosaurs more dramatic names than ...

A dinosaur that may have been one of the fiercest of the Cretaceous period has been excavated in South America – with an extinct crocodile’s leg in its jaws. The remains of the dinosaur, named ...

Joaquinraptor is a newly discovered species of megaraptor that was found with the leg bone of a crocodyliform (a crocodile ancestor) in its mouth. This is the most complete megaraptor skeleton ever ...