Scientists in south-western France have uncovered a giant dinosaur thigh bone at an excavation site that has been yielding fossils for nearly a decade. Two metres (6.6ft) long, the femur found at ...

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Make no mistake, the "field"—which is anywhere and everywhere bones can be found—still dominates dinosaur research. In recent years the field has produced feathered dinosaurs from China ...

By carefully cutting thin sections through dinosaur bones and putting them under the microscope, we can age dinosaurs and work out how fast they grew to adulthood. This is done by counting the growth ...

The area is rough terrain, so the team has to be flown in by helicopter. Usually, well-preserved dinosaur bones are found in deserts, where rocks are exposed, but Arbour said that on this ...

But Jeremy Lockwood, a retired GP and University of Portsmouth PhD student helped with the dinosaur’s excavation and spent ...

It does come down to luck: the dinosaur fossils have to have been eroded out at the surface so that you can see at least a little bit of it poking out. 'We spend a lot of time walking around, looking ...

One of the bones comes from the tibia (lower leg bone) of a two-legged meat-eater similar to Sarcosaurus The only dinosaur bones ever found in Ireland have been confirmed to belong to two ...

Dinosaurs are a group of pre-historic reptiles which lived over 140 million years ago. They took many forms, including the huge hulking plant eating brontosaurus to the fast and skilled hunters of ...