A fossil of the 23-foot-long predator could help unlock secrets of an order of dinosaurs that remain poorly understood. By Asher Elbein In 2019, a team of researchers uncovered a 70-million-year-old ...

The Velociraptors of "Jurassic Park" were terrifyingly large, merciless killing machines. The stuff of nightmares, yes. The stuff of reality? Not so much. But a team of paleontologists said they may ...

A series of foot tracks in southeastern China points to the discovery of a giant velociraptor relative, paleontologists suggest in a new study. By Jack Tamisiea ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of megaraptor dinosaur in Argentina, along with a startling clue about what it ate. Named Joaquinraptor casali, the apex predator apparently ate ...

It’s not every day paleontologists find a dinosaur with lunch still wedged in its teeth. But in Patagonia, researchers just pulled that off. In a fossil bed dating back 68 million years, scientists ...

While the great Tyrannosaurus rex stalked prehistoric North America, a very different apex predator prowled ancient Argentina: the newly discovered megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali. When ...

Joaquinraptor is a newly discovered species of megaraptor that was found with the leg bone of a crocodyliform (a crocodile ancestor) in its mouth. This is the most complete megaraptor skeleton ever ...

An artistic rendering of a Joaquinraptor casali with a croc leg in its mouth. Andrew McAfee / Carnegie Museum Paleontologists working in Argentina have revealed one of the most complete megaraptor ...

The Velociraptors of "Jurassic Park" were terrifyingly large, merciless killing machines. The stuff of nightmares, yes. The stuff of reality? Not so much. Scientific research has long held the real ...