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All the latest news and updates about dinosaurs, a group of prehistoric reptiles that wandered Earth for millions of years. Famous dinosaurs include Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Diplodocus and Stegosaurus. Discover more about the dinosaurs' history, plus the latest scientific discoveries, theories, and fossil finds.

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A 18.5 inch sculpture of a dinosaur costing £35,000 replacing the 53ft tall Luna Park statue in Southsea, Portsmouth, which burned down in a fire in 2010

Dog-sized £35,000 statue of dinosaur branded 'pathetic waste of money'

Channel: UK UK October 26, 2021 By James Hockaday

This prehistoric crab has been trapped in amber for 100 million years

Channel: Tech Tech October 22, 2021 By Mark Waghorn
Embargoed to 0001 Wednesday October 6 Undated handout photo issued by the Natural History Museum of an illistration of oldest known meat-eating dinosaur from the UK ??? a chicken sized animal that would have been one metre long with its tail. The new dinosaur is a theropod, a group which also includes T. rex and modern birds. Issue date: Wednesday October 6, 2021. PA Photo. The new dinosaur is a theropod, a group which also includes T. rex and modern birds. The fossil was named Pendraig milnerae ??? Pendraig meaning chief dragon in Middle Welsh, and milnerae honouring Dr Angela Milner, who was the Natural History Museum???s (NHM) deputy keeper of palaeontology for more than 30 years. See PA story SCIENCE Dinosaurs . Photo credit should read: James Robbins/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

UK's oldest meat-eating dinosaur was the size of a chicken

Channel: Tech Tech October 7, 2021 By Nina Massey
EMBARGOED TO 1000 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29 Undated handout artist impression of a Ceratosuchops inferodios (foreground) and a Riparovenator milnerae. Two new species of dinosaur that may have once roamed what is now the Isle of Wight 125 million years ago have been discovered. The two carnivorous reptiles are thought to have been nine metres long - about the same as a Stegosaurus - with skulls like crocodiles. Issue date: Wednesday September 29, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE Dinosaurs. Photo credit should read: Anthony Hutchings/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Discovered: Two new species of dinosaur that roamed the Isle of Wight 125m years ago

Channel: Tech Tech September 30, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
EMBARGOED TO 1600 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23 Dr. Susannah Maidment at the Natural History Museum in London with a specimen of the oldest ankylosaur ever discovered and the first from the African continent. The specimen is a fossil of armour spikes, that once protruded from the ankylosaur's ribs. Contrary to Dr. Maidment's original suspicion that the specimen could be fake, the specimen is genuine and, therefore, new to science. Picture date: Thursday September 9, 2021. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

New species of dinosaur discovered in Morocco

Channel: Tech Tech September 23, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
Embargoed until 00.01 Wednesday Sept 8 Artist's impression of newly discovered dinosaur Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis. See SWNS story SWNNdino. A giant dinosaur that rivalled T Rex in size and ferocity has been dug up by scientists. The terrifying beast, as big as a school bus, was one of the mightiest land killers that ever lived. Its powerful jaws housed serrated, blade-like teeth up to six inches long - similar to a Great White Shark's. Whereas T rex ??? the most famous of all dinosaur species ??? stalked its prey about 66m years ago, Thanatos dates back at least 79m years, the team said.

Skeleton of gigantic dinosaur that rivalled the T-Rex dug up in Asia

Channel: Tech Tech September 8, 2021 By Mark Waghorn

Girl, 4, who found 220,000,000-year-old fossil gets museum display named after her

Channel: UK UK July 21, 2021 By Elisa Menendez
**Embargoed until 19.00BST/14.00ET - July 7, 2021** A bizarre dinosaur as big as a school bus had Edward Scissorhands style killer claws. See SWNS story SWNNdinosaur. The new species sported five razor sharp fingers similar to a 'Swiss Army knife'. They included a particularly deadly spike at the end of its thumb, say scientists. Named Portellsaurus sosbaynati, they were 'handy' weapons to fight off predators - or for cutting open fruit! The creaturre was a member of a specialist group of iguanodons called styracosternans. Another distinguishing feature was its huge nostrils. Portellsaurus roamed Spain around 130 million years ago. It was ten feet tall, weighed more than four tons and reached up to 26 feet in length. The beast was identified from a jawbone dug up at a prehistoric animal graveyard in Portell in the region of Catalonia. The beast is closely related to herbivore dinosaurs whose remains have been found in modern-day China and Niger.

New species of dino was size of a school bus and had razor-sharp killer claws

Channel: Tech Tech July 7, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter

230 million-year-old beetle found in fossilised dinosaur poo

Channel: Tech Tech July 1, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
Handout photo dated 13/09/17 issued by the University of Portsmouth showing a large ornithopod footprint, some of the last dinosaurs on UK soil, found close to the white cliffs of Dover. Issue date: Friday June 18, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE Footprints. Photo credit should read: University of Portsmouth/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Footprints from the UK's last dinosaurs found in Folkestone

Channel: Tech Tech June 18, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
***EMBARGOED UNTIL 16.00 BST, MON JUNE 14 (11.00 ET)*** Oculudentavis naga, as depicted in this artist's reconstruction, was a bizarre lizard that researchers initially struggled to categorize. They are still unsure of its exact position in the lizard family tree. See SWNS story SWNNlizard. A bizarre lizard locked in Burmese amber for 99 million years has opened a new window into the "lost world of the dinosaurs." Its exquisitely preserved remains include the skull, teeth, scales, skin and soft tissue. A raised crest running down the top of the snout can also be seen through the fossilised tree resin. There is flap of loose skin under the chin, too. That may have been inflated in display.

99-million-year-old bird trapped in amber is reclassified as lizard

Channel: Tech Tech June 14, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
An 8-meter-long dinosaur fossil found in Lufeng, China. (AsiaWire)

180-million-year-old dinosaur fossil uncovered in China

Channel: Tech Tech June 7, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
FILE PHOTO: Visitors look at a 67 million year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur named Trix during the first day of the exhibition "A T-Rex in Paris" at the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

The mighty T-rex may have actually hunted in packs, study suggests

Channel: Tech Tech April 21, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter

Gigantic flying reptile with 'ridiculously long' neck was 'unlike anything seen before'

Channel: Tech Tech April 14, 2021 By Katherine Hignett
Undated handout photo issued by Marie Woods of herself pictured with the largest dinosaur footprint ever found in Yorkshire, which was discovered by archaeologist Marie whilst she was collecting shellfish on the beach. Experts believe it was made by a large meat-eating dinosaur with a possible body length of eight to nine metres, matching the print of a Megalosaurus. Issue date: Tuesday April 13, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story Fossil. Photo credit should read: Marie Woods/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

'Jurassic giant' dinosaur footprint discovered on Yorkshire beach

Channel: Tech Tech April 14, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
new dinosaur Llukalkan aliocranianus

New dinosaur named 'one who causes fear' discovered in Patagonia

Channel: Tech Tech April 2, 2021 By Katherine Hignett
***Embargoed until 16.00 GMT, WED FEB 15 (11.00 ET)*** The illustration represents a reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on the genetic knowledge we now have from the Adycha mammoth.See SWNS story SWNNmammoth. The world's oldest DNA has been extracted from the tooth of a mammoth that lived 1.65 million years ago. It smashes the previous record by almost a million years - offering hope of mapping the genomes of a host of Ice Age giants. An international team also sequenced the teeth of two other mammoths - dating back 1.34 million and 870,000 years. The breakthrough sheds fresh light on the evolution of the iconic beast - and how fast it became adapted to a cold climate.

World's oldest DNA recovered from 1.2 million year old woolly mammoth tooth

Channel: Tech Tech February 18, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter

What killed the dinosaurs? Harvard scientists have a new theory on devastating impact

Channel: Tech Tech February 16, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter
Undated handout artist impression issued by the Natural History Museum of a Protoceratops. The small sheep-sized dinosaur that lived more than 70 million years ago evolved to have a "huge" neck frill as a result of sexual selection, according to scientists. Issue date: Wednesday February 3, 2021. PA Photo. The protoceratops, a 1.8m-long plant-eating dinosaur that roamed what is now Mongolia's Gobi Desert, had elaborate bony frills that extended over the neck. It is thought that the frills may have served to protect the vulnerable neck from predators and helped regulate body temperature but experts now believe it may have had another function: attracting mates. See PA story SCIENCE Protoceratops. Photo credit should read: Natural History Museum/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder. Issue date: Wednesday February 3, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE Protoceratops. Photo credit should read: Andrew Knapp/Natural History Museum/PA Wire

Gobi desert dinosaurs used sex 'collar' to attract mates

Channel: Tech Tech February 3, 2021 By Metro Science Reporter

Little girl finds 220,000,000-year-old dinosaur fossil on UK beach

Channel: UK UK January 31, 2021 By Jordan King
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