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Prehistoric animals

Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion

Bruno Grossi, José Iriarte-Díaz, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez

published 05 Feb 2014

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A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America

Matthew C. Lamanna, Hans-Dieter Sues, Emma R. Schachner, Tyler R. Lyson

published 19 Mar 2014

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The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ichthyosaurs from the UK

Dean R. Lomax, Paul de la Salle, Marcello Perillo, Justin Reynolds, Ruby Reynolds, James F. Waldron

published 17 Apr 2024

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Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator from Europe, and a Proposed Terminology of the Maxilla Anatomy in Nonavian Theropods

Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus

published 05 Mar 2014

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The Predatory Ecology of Deinonychus and the Origin of Flapping in Birds

Denver W. Fowler, Elizabeth A. Freedman, John B. Scannella, Robert E. Kambic

published 14 Dec 2011

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On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness

Mark P. Witton, Michael B. Habib

published 15 Nov 2010

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A Computational Analysis of Limb and Body Dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex with Implications for Locomotion, Ontogeny, and Growth

John R. Hutchinson, Karl T. Bates, Julia Molnar, Vivian Allen, Peter J. Makovicky

published 12 Oct 2011

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Tyrant Dinosaur Evolution Tracks the Rise and Fall of Late Cretaceous Oceans

Mark A. Loewen, Randall B. Irmis, Joseph J. W. Sertich, Philip J. Currie, Scott D. Sampson

published 06 Nov 2013

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Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur

Paul C. Sereno, Jeffrey A. Wilson, Lawrence M. Witmer, John A. Whitlock, Abdoulaye Maga, Oumarou Ide, Timothy A. Rowe

published 21 Nov 2007

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A Reappraisal of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Functional Morphology and Paleoecology

Mark P. Witton, Darren Naish

published 28 May 2008

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Torosaurus Is Not Triceratops: Ontogeny in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsids as a Case Study in Dinosaur Taxonomy

Nicholas R. Longrich, Daniel J. Field

published 29 Feb 2012

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New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism

Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Eric M. Roberts, Catherine A. Forster, Joshua A. Smith, Alan L. Titus

published 22 Sep 2010

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Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today

Gabor Horvath, Etelka Farkas, Ildiko Boncz, Miklos Blaho, Gyorgy Kriska

published 05 Dec 2012

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