Latest articles by Vasika Udurawane

Japan has merely seven dinosaurs altogether. This one was small, omnivorous and related to the famous raptor dinosaurs. It is also the country’s most complete dinosaur to date.

A study of 12,000-year-old DNA shows that the car-sized, club-tailed glyptodonts were cousins of modern armadillos.

There were once hoofed animals that did not just graze and run in herds. Among their ranks were gigantic beasts with bone-crushing jaws that were the most powerful predators of their time. They ruled the earliest grasslands, taking prey up to the size of rhinos while contending with other deadly hunters. They are the entelodonts, the aptly named ‘terminator pigs’.