Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

The first theropod dinosaur has been identified in Kyrgyzstan. It is named Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, after a giant mythological bird from the Kyrgyz Epic of Manas that helps out heroes during ...

These finds rewrite the evolutionary history of theropod dinosaurs, uncovering a predator hierarchy unique to Cretaceous Australia. The research, led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and ...

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 ...

Decades of major new discoveries and studies have convinced researchers that there’s a direct link between modern bird species and theropod dinosaurs. Once dinosaurs were thought of as scaled-up ...

These finds rewrite the evolutionary history of theropod dinosaurs, uncovering a predator hierarchy unique to Cretaceous Australia. The research, led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and Monash ...

The new findings from Australia describe five new theropod fossils uncovered along Victoria, Australia’s coast, an area known as the upper Strzelecki Group — Bunurong/Boonwurrung Country, Bass Coast, ...

Modern Australia is known for its array of wildlife: poisonous snakes and spiders, saltwater crocodiles, koalas, kangaroos, and more. The continent was also once home to dinosaurs, including the ...

A landmark discovery has revealed the previously-unknown existence of a large apex predator on the prehistoric Australian continent and uncovered a predator hierarchy unique to the region.