Latest articles by Franz Anthony

Just like every other organism on earth, Pachycephalosaurus started out tiny. And just like most other dinosaurs known to the general public, it is associated with the adult specimens of the animal. It doesn’t help that remains of Pachycephalosaurus and its relatives are often fragmentary, complicating efforts to identify and classify the dinosaurs.

One lucky bird’s narrow escape from its hunter refines our knowledge about predatory behavior in Late Cretaceous waters. Researchers matched the bite marks with a predator’s teeth to figure out how it all happened.

The 300-million-year-old enigma looks like a sci-fi squid with claw. Scientists have finally figured out its place on the tree of life.