How giant sauropods got their strange skulls

New research clarifies how sauropod dinosaurs, such as Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Brachiosaurus, evolved their unusual skulls.

Fred Mamoun-Yale • futurity
April 21, 2021 • ~5 min

Billions of T. rexes may have roamed North America

About 20,000 adult T. rex probably lived in North America at any one time. That's a total of 2.5 billion over about 2 1/2 million years it walked the Earth.

Robert Sanders-UC Berkeley • futurity
April 20, 2021 • ~11 min

Smallest stegosaur footprint ever came from cat-sized dino

A newly discovered footprint is the smallest ever found to come from a type of dinosaur called a stegasaur. This one was made by a dino the size of a cat.

Dominic Jarvis-Queensland • futurity
April 19, 2021 • ~4 min

How many Tyrannosaurus rex walked the Earth?

Using the incredible wealth of fossil data and a modern ecological theory, researchers estimated population density for the extinct apex predator.

Daniel Varajão de Latorre, Ph.D. Student in Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley • conversation
April 16, 2021 • ~6 min

Dinosaurs: how our understanding of what they looked like keeps changing

A transcript of episode 11 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including an interview on Israel's foreign policy options following its recent election.

Daniel Merino, Assistant Editor: Science, Health, Environment; Co-Host: The Conversation Weekly Podcast • conversation
April 16, 2021 • ~42 min

Dinosaurs: from giant reptiles to warm-blooded, feathered creatures, how our understanding of what they looked like has changed – podcast

Plus, what Israel's latest election could mean for its foreign policy. Listen to episode 11 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Daniel Merino, Assistant Editor: Science, Health, Environment; Co-Host: The Conversation Weekly Podcast • conversation
April 15, 2021 • ~4 min

Largest ever flying creatures had longer necks than giraffes – we found out how these pterosaurs kept their heads up

Gigantic flying reptiles had impressive wingspans of up to 12 metres – and a special trick in their necks.

Cariad Williams, PhD Candidate, Paleoentomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • conversation
April 14, 2021 • ~7 min

Scientists zero in on the role of volcanoes in the demise of dinosaurs

Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that volcanic carbon emissions were not a major driver in Earth’s most recent extinction event.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 29, 2021 • ~5 min

Plant-eating dinos took 15 million years to get to Greenland from Brazil

The first herbivorous dinosaurs arrived in Greenland from South America 214 million years ago. It took them 15 million years to do it.

Katherina Killander-U. Copenhagen • futurity
March 10, 2021 • ~6 min

Tyrannosaurus rex didn't get its ferocious bite until it was an adult - new research

Our new study has found younger tyrannosaurs would have hunted small prey.

Andre Rowe, PhD Candidate in Geology, University of Bristol • conversation
March 9, 2021 • ~5 min

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