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Taxa Troodontinae

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7

Taxa Troodontini

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7

Taxa Saurornithoidini

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7

Taxa Sinovenatorinae

Collection of four troodontids, clockwise from top left: Mei long, unnamed Alaskan troodontid, Jianianhualong tengi, Sinovenator changii.

museum Taiwan fossil holotype +7

Elangatoolithidae fossil dinosaur eggs, from China. Exhibit in the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Photography was permitted in this area of the museum without restrictions.

museum China United States fossil +2

Fossil specimen of Ornithomimus sp. (TMP 1995.110.1), Royal Tyrrell Museum. This specimen was recovered from the middle Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada.

museum Canada Germany Dinosaur Park +6

Taxa Prognathodontini

Taken at the Minnosota Science Museum: Dinosaurs and Fossils Gallery. Creative Commons licensed photo by ideonexus.com. Please feel free to take and reuse for any purpose.

museum fossil Dinosauria Mosasaurinae +1

Taxa Itemiridae

Montage of six dinosaur fossils: (clockwise from top left) Deinonychus antirrhopus, Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, Velociraptor mongoliensis, Microraptor gui, Halszkaraptor escuilliei, and Zhenyuanlong suni. This is a collection of six different works already found in Wikimedia Commons: File:Deinonychus FMNH.jpg File:Buitreraptor FMNH.jpg File:Velociraptor Wyoming Dinosaur Center.jpg File:MicroraptorGui-PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina-May23-08.jpg File:Halszkaraptor escuilliei.jpg File:Zhenyuanlong.jpg All of them are either under a free license already in Wikimedia Commons or in the public domain

fossil Buitreraptor Deinonychus Dinosauria +8

Taxa Ornithodesmidae

fossil Buitreraptor Deinonychus Dinosauria +8

Uses https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dromaeosaurus_in_Canadian_Museum_of_Nature.jpg File:Alaskan_troodont_Perot_Museum.jpg File:Unenlagia_fossils.jpg File:Talos_sampsoni.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Velociraptor_Wyoming_Dinosaur_Center.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurornitholestes File:Buitreraptor-Deinonychus.jpg File:Dakotaraptor_lateral_Wiki.jpg

museum fossil Buitreraptor Dakotaraptor +8

fossil of hydrorion

fossil Hydrorion

Ischyrotherium antiquus fossils.

fossil Ischyrosaurus

Fossil of Archaeopteryx- Took the picture at Teylers Museum, Haarlem

museum fossil Archaeopteryx Ostromia

Fossil bone of Procerosaurus exogyrarum, possible dinosaur from the Czech Republic. National Museum, Prague (2007).

bone museum Czech Republic fossil +3

Taxa Thaisauridae

Fossil of Thaisaurus - Took the picture at Museo di Storia Naturale, Milano

fossil Thaisauridae Thaisaurus

Fossil of Blezingeria, an extinct reptile - Muschelkalkmuseum Hagdorn

fossil Blezingeria

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News

Fossil feet may be misleading scientists about human evolution

fossil discovery evolution

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed. The discovery challenges a key assumption about what the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees looked like and how it moved.

31/08/2026 sciencedaily-paleo

Amazing Armoured Dinosaur Discovery – Japan’s First Definitive Ankylosaur

Japan Cretaceous fossil Ankylosauria Dinosauria Nodosauridae discovery

A new genus and species of armoured dinosaur has been named from fossils found in Japan. Nipponopelta yezoensis represents the first formally named Japanese ankylosaur. Furthermore, this discovery provides important information about the dispersal of nodosaurids during the Cretaceous Period. The new dinosaur was named and described by an international team of palaeontologists. The research

30/08/2026 everythingdinosaur

Remarkable Carboniferous Coelacanth Fossil Discovery in Yorkshire

Carboniferous fossil discovery

A remarkable Roundhay Park coelacanth fossil has been discovered in Leeds. The fossil is around 320 million years old. It dates from the Carboniferous. Furthermore, experts believe it represents the oldest fossil coelacanth yet found in Yorkshire. Geologist Ru Smith of the Yorkshire Geological Society made the discovery earlier this year. He found a well-preserved

27/08/2026 everythingdinosaur

324-million-year-old fossil reveals how insects conquered land

limb fossil insect

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried paddle-like abdominal limbs, revealing an evolutionary bridge between aquatic ancestors and modern six-legged insects.

27/08/2026 sciencedaily

Remarkable Triassic Marine Reptile Fossil Preserves Internal Organs

China Triassic fossil specimen anatomy skeleton

Scientists have described an exceptional fossil of the long-necked, Triassic marine reptile Austronaga minuta. The specimen comes from China and is around 245 million years old. Remarkably, much of the animal's digestive system has been preserved. The almost complete fossil provides scientists with an unprecedented view of the skeleton and internal anatomy of an archosauromorph.

26/08/2026 everythingdinosaur

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