dinosaur news - Today’s latest updates (2024)

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What is the newest dinosaur discovered in 2024? ›

Now there is a new dinosaur species on the paleontology block, Fona herzogae. HAVIV AVRAHAMI: Small plant-eating dinosaurs - they were bipedal.

New dinosaur species discovered in Zimbabwe named Musankwa sanyatiensis. Researchers say the remains date back to the Late Triassic period. Researchers said the 215-million-year-old crocodile is also known as aetosaurs.

A new dinosaur has been identified and named. The dinosaur's name, Lokiceratops rangiformis, translates roughly to 'Loki's horned face that looks like a caribou. ' What do you get when you cross Norse mythology with a 78-million-year-old ancestor to the Triceratops?

Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), after living on Earth for about 165 million years.

Fossils of the dinosaur, which has been named Lokiceratops rangiformis -- including a skull and a partial skeleton -- were unearthed on private land in Kennedy Coulee, in the badlands of northern Montana near the U.S.-Canada border.

BBC Studios recently announced that they are co-producing an all-new Walking with Dinosaurs series with ZDF and France Télévisions, for the BBC and PBS stations.

The titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum is a big deal—literally, the biggest dinosaur that scientists have discovered to date. This long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur lived over 100 million years ago in what is now Patagonia, Argentina.

Subtle differences from Tyrannosaurus rex observed in the skull merit recognizing the dinosaur as a separate species called Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis that lived several million years before T. rex and was comparable in size, the researchers said on Thursday. The skull previously was identified as a T. rex.

The Mexican anthropology body also explained the meaning of the name - Tlatolophus galorum - for the new species of dinosaur. Tlatolophus is a mixture of two words, putting together a term from the indigenous Mexican language of Nahuatl that means "word" with the Greek term meaning "crest".

To further their research, the chicken was the first bird to have its genome sequenced. This means that scientists found the particular order of their DNA. Doing this helped provide more evidence for scientists to confirm that the chicken is currently the closest living relative to the T-Rex.

Is there any dinosaur species alive? ›

Why are there no non-avian dinosaurs alive today? The non-avian dinosaur part of the evolutionary tree went extinct about 66 million years ago, likely due to a catastrophic event such as an asteroid impact, leaving no real dinosaurs alive today except for their bird descendants.

A rendering shows Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, a newly discovered relative of Tyrannosaurus rex. The creature likely roamed Earth up to 7 million years before T. rex.

Unfortunately, dinosaurs probably cannot be cloned and brought back to life. Their DNA is too old since dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years. Any genetic information is not likely to survive for one million years, so the dinosaurs are simply too old to be cloned.

No! After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals (including shrew-sized primates) were alive at the time of the dinosaurs.

The Triassic climate was relatively hot and dry, and much of the land was covered with large deserts. Unlike today, there were no polar ice caps. These fossils come from a dinosaur called Nyasasaurus. Its remains suggest that it may have been one of the very first dinosaurs.

June 13, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a new species of medium-sized venomous snake in Yunnan, China. Ovophis jenkinsi is dark brownish-grey in color with trapezoidal patches on its back. It is endemic to ...

The new for 2024 Eofauna T. rex model is due into Everything Dinosaur in the next few weeks. This 1:35 scale figure is based on a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen nicknamed “Sue”. This is the second theropod model to be added to the Eofauna Scientific Research range.

Jurassic world: Blackout is a 2024, Canadian/ American science-fiction film and a sequel to Jurassic world: Uprising.

Konidaris et al. (2024) describe new proboscidean material from Late Miocene localities in Romania, including fossils of Deinotherium proavum and "Mammut" cf. obliquelophus, as well as the first fossil material of a member of the genus Konobelodon from the country.