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Jinfengopteryx elegans fossil displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum

museum fossil Jinfengopteryginae Jinfengopteryx

Illustration of Sinusonasus (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Coelurosauria, Deinonychosauria, Troodontidae). This restoration is an edited and updated version of a drawing I originally uploaded on Wikimedia at December 11th 2009 (which i turn is based on a fossil seen at http://site.sinodino.com/Museum/images/Sinusonasus.JPG.).

drawing museum fossil Coelurosauria +5

Fossil specimen in the Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

museum United States fossil specimen +1

fossil of juravenator

fossil Juravenator

Tratayenia rosalesi restored in resting posture, based on fossil images.

fossil Tratayenia

The National history museum in Milan, Italy. Fossil of a juvenile individual of Scipionyx samniticus. The fossil (to date the first of this species ever) preserves in an exceptional way clear traces of soft tissues - a rather rare event. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, April 22 2007.

tissue museum Italy fossil +2

Huaxiagnathus orientalis fossil displayed in Hong Kong Science Museum

museum fossil Huaxiagnathus

The ankle of Camposaurus arizonensis (UCMP 34998, reversed). The fossils is shown anterior, medial, posterior, lateral, and ventral views, from left to right. The arrow indicates anterior direction.

fossil Camposaurus

Taxa Procompsognathinae

Holotype fossil specimen SMNS 12591 of Procompsognathus

fossil holotype specimen Procompsognathinae +1

An overview of the known fossil material of Tyrannomimus fukuiensis. Fossil specimens shown in are not in the same scale. The bar is scaled for the paratype (FPDM-V-10295). The holotype (FPDM-V-11333) and paratype in are colored in red and blue, respectively. The right femur in is mirrored from the left one (FPDM-V-11338).

scale fossil holotype specimen +1

Taxa Xuanhuasaurus

Artistic reconstruction of the head of an early ceratopsian Xuanhuaceratops niei based on the currently known fossil material and the cranial remains of other chaoyangsaurids.

fossil Ceratopsia Chaoyangsauridae Xuanhuaceratops +1

Fossil of Koreaceratops found at Hwaseong-si Gyeonggi-do, Korea.

fossil Koreaceratops

Helioceratops brachygnathus restoration based on fossil images.

fossil Helioceratops

fossil Craspedodon

Fossil of Lurdusaurus, an ornithopod dinosaur Took the photo at Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels

fossil Dinosauria Lurdusaurus

Life restoration of Morrosaurus antarcticus based on fossil images. Integument based on small, bipedal ornithischians like Kulindadromeus.

fossil Kulindadromeus Morrosaurus Ornithischia

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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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