Palaeontologists are captivated by the size of record-breaking dinosaurs worldwide. Through measuring bone proportions and ...
Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, weighing in at 7.4 tonnes and ...
Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to their remarkable ability to populate much of the Earth ...
Most of the dinosaur fossils found in Victoria belong to small plant-eaters called ornithopods. But there are also a few theropod fossils—a diverse group that includes all known carnivorous ...
If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?
Theropods are classified as carnivorous dinosaurs that are able to walk on two legs with hollow, thin-walled bones and usually small forelimbs – the tyrannosaurus is a famous example.
A massive dinosaur footprint of the Iguanodon species ... "Nobody really knows what it could be from, but probably from a small carnivorous mammal. So something eating small rodents and stuff ...
For example, we have well-studied fossils of carnivorous dinosaurs with the bones of other animals inside them. Although is incontrovertible that the carnivorous dinosaurs ate these other animals ...
Image credit: Nadir Kinani/Museums Victoria Most of the dinosaur fossils found in Victoria belong to small plant-eaters called ornithopods. But there are also a few theropod fossils — a diverse group ...
One of the Victorian carcharodontosaur shinbones was found on the Otway Coast. The other was found on the Bass Coast, in rocks nearly 10 million years older. This demonstrates these predators were ...
A closer look at fossilized teeth from carnivorous dinosaurs has revealed that what was once thought to be damage is actually a unique adaptation that likely contributed to the predators’ success. A ...