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UNEXPECTED
DINO LESSON

Scientific Papers

Paleontologists are always making new discoveries and conducting new studies. Here you'll find scientific papers that have been recently released.

* = New Dinosaur!

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24 Apr 2024 -

Computed tomographic investigation of a hatchling skull reveals ontogenetic changes in the dentition and occlusal surface morphology of Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)

24 Apr 2024 -

Deinonychosaur trackways in southeastern China record a possible giant troodontid

23 Apr 2024 -

The first discovery of spinosaurid remains in Asia: Thailand, 1962

23 Apr 2024 -

Large theropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous of Guangdong Province, Southern China

22 Apr 2024 -

A new ootype of putative dromaeosaurid eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China

19 Apr 2024 -

A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution

19 Apr 2024 -

A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution

16 Apr 2024 -

Mechanistic phylodynamic models do not provide conclusive evidence that non-avian dinosaurs were in decline before their final extinction

16 Apr 2024 -

Tooth replacement in the early-diverging neornithischian Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis and implications for dental evolution and herbivorous adaptation in Ornithischia

16 Apr 2024 -

Craniomandibular anatomy of a juvenile specimen of Edmontosaurus regalis Lambe, 1917 clarifies issues in ontogeny and biogeography

16 Apr 2024 -

Morphological disparity and structural performance of the dromaeosaurid skull informs ecology and evolutionary history

15 Apr 2024 -

A theropod tooth from the Missão Velha Formation (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) of the Araripe Basin: oldest Brazilian Abelisaurid record

14 Apr 2024 -

Prologue. Dinosaurs and associated biota: new discoveries and insights

*11 Apr 2024 -

A reassessment of the historical fossil findings from Bahia State (Northeast Brazil) reveals a diversified dinosaur fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of South America

*10 Apr 2024 -

A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina

27 Mar 2024 -

Sauropod Upper Cretaceous diversity in northeastern Neuquén Basin of Argentina

*26 Mar 2024 -

Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay

25 Mar 2024 -

An unusual microsite from the Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada

25 Mar 2024 -

Of his bones are crinoid made: taphonomy and deadfall ecology of marine reptiles from a pelagic setting (Middle-Upper Jurassic of Northeastern Italy

24 Mar 2024 -

Diversity and discrimination of large ornithopods revealed through their tracks (Lower Cretaceous, Spain): A phenetic correlation approach

22 Mar 2024 -

New fossils of Eocypselus and Primapus from the British London Clay reveal a high taxonomic and ecological diversity of early Eocene swift-like apodiform birds

22 Mar 2024 -

A re-evaluation of Scelidosaurus remains from Ireland and the importance of apomorphy-based identifications

21 Mar 2024 -

Reassessment of ‘Gyposaurus’ sinensis Young, 1941 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Early Jurassic Lufeng Basin, Yunnan Province, China

21 Mar 2024 -

A hidden diversity of ornithischian dinosaurs: U.K. Middle Jurassic microvertebrate faunas shed light on a poorly represented period

20 Mar 2024 -

Dinosaur biostratigraphy of the Nonmarine Cretaceous of Utah

*18 Mar 2024 -

An unexpected early-diverging iguanodontian dinosaur (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal

13 Mar 2024 -

Sauropod manus and pes prints with impressions of integument from the Ravenscar Group (Middle Jurassic) of Whitby, Yorkshire, England

12 Mar 2024 -

A combined approach to identify isolated theropod teeth from the Cenomanian Kem Kem Group of Morocco: cladistic, discriminant, and machine learning analyses

11 Mar 2024 -

Monsoon Shaped Herbivore Dinosaur Distribution

*11 Mar 2024 -

A new ornithopod from the Upper Cretaceous (Huincul Formation) of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. implications on elasmarian postcranial anatomy

7 Mar 2024 -

Morphometric analysis of the cervical vertebral series in extant birds with implications for Mesozoic avialan feeding ecology

6 Mar 2024 -

A guide to the reconstruction of the autopodia of Tetrapoda through 3D technology: the case of Neuquensaurus australis (Sauropoda: Titanosauria)

6 Mar 2024 -

Diving dinosaurs? Caveats on the use of bone compactness and pFDA for inferring lifestyle

4 Mar 2024 -

New discoveries of dinosauroid track remains from the Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic, Nor, Löwenstein Formation) of the Stromberg (Württemberg)

27 Feb 2024 -

First Edentulous Enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Avifauna

23 Feb 2024 -

Trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes: a synthesis including new insights from Bohaiornithidae

*23 Feb 2024 -

The first mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Dongxing Formation of Guangxi, southernmost China

21 Feb 2024 -

An ankylosaur femur from the mid-Cretaceous of the Peace Region of northeastern British Columbia

*19 Feb 2024 -

A new armored dinosaur with double cheek horns from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern China

*19 Feb 2024 -

Increasing the theropod record of Europe: a new basal spinosaurid from the Enciso Group of the Cameros Basin (La Rioja, Spain). Evolutionary implications and palaeobiodiversity

13 Feb 2024 -

Articular surface interactions distinguish dinosaurian locomotor joint poses

*13 Feb 2024 -

A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa

12 Feb 2024 -

Genomes, fossils, and the concurrent rise of modern birds and flowering plants in the Late Cretaceous

10 Feb 2024 -

Avialan-like brain morphology in Sinovenator (Troodontidae, Theropoda)

9 Feb 2024 -

A well-preserved vertebra provides new insights into rebbachisaurid sauropod caudal anatomical and pneumatic features

9 Feb 2024 -

A juvenile bird with possible crown-group affinities from a dinosaur-rich Cretaceous ecosystem in North America

8 Feb 2024 -

A caenagnathid tibia (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the upper Campanian Kirtland Formation of New Mexico

7 Feb 2024 -

A review of small-bodied theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of India, with description of new cranial remains of a noasaurid (Theropoda: Abelisauria)

6 Feb 2024 -

New Data on Skull Morphology of Psittacosaurus sibiricus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) Using Micro-Computed Tomography

1 Feb 2024 -

Elevated evolutionary rates of biting biomechanics reveal patterns of extraordinary craniodental adaptations in some herbivorous dinosaurs

31 Jan 2024 -

New theropod remains from the late Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Eastern Iberian Peninsula

* 31 Jan 2024 -

A new stegosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China

31 Jan 2024 -

New information on paleopathologies in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: a case study on South American abelisaurids

30 Jan 2024 -

New Dinosaur Ichnological, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Data from a Cretaceous High-Latitude Terrestrial Greenhouse Ecosystem, Nanushuk Formation, North Slope, Alaska

27 Jan 2024 -

The effect of character and outgroup choice on the phylogenetic position of the Jurassic dinosaur Chilesaurus diegosaurezi

26 Jan 2024 -

The first stegosaurian dinosaur from Gansu Province, China

25 Jan 2024 -

Stratigraphic architecture of the Belly River Group (Campanian, Cretaceous) in the plains of southern Alberta: Revisions and updates to an existing model and implications for correlating dinosaur-rich strata

25 Jan 2024 -

Escape behaviors in prey and the evolution of pennaceous plumage in dinosaurs

* 24 Jan 2024 -

A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America

23 Jan 2024 -

Orbit size and estimated eye size in dinosaurs and other archosaurs and their implications for the evolution of visual capabilities

17 Jan 2024 -

The coevolution of rostral keratin and tooth distribution in dinosaurs

* 17 Jan 2024 -

A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China

15 Jan 2024 -

The evolution and diversification of growth strategies in abelisauroid theropods

14 Jan 2024 -

Pelvic and hindlimb muscular reconstruction of the paravian theropod Buitreraptor gonzalezorum and its palaeobiological implications

11 Jan 2024 -

A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism

8 Jan 2024 -

Fossil evidence sheds light on sexual selection during the early evolution of birds

6 Jan 2024 -

Biogeography of theropod dinosaurs during the Late Cretaceous: evidence from central South America

3 Jan 2024 -

Taxonomic Status of Nanotyrannus lancensis (Dinosauria: Tyrannosauroidea)—A Distinct Taxon of Small-Bodied Tyrannosaur

* 3 Jan 2024 -

The last of the oldies: a basal rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) of Patagonia, Argentina

1 Jan 2024 -

The ontogenetic status of a small hadrosauroid dinosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous of Bulgaria, and implications for the paleobiogeography and assembly of European island faunas

29 Dec 2023 -

Novel pneumatic features in the ribs of the sauropod dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax

28 Dec 2023 -

What do their footprints tell us? Many questions and some answers about the life of non-avian dinosaurs

28 Dec 2023 -

First definitive record of Acrocanthosaurus (Theropoda: Carcharodontosauridae) in the Lower Cretaceous of eastern North America

21 Dec 2023 -

Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in Dinosauria

19 Dec 2023 -

Rhabdodontid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) diversity suggested by the first documented occurrence of associated cranial and postcranial material at Vălioara (uppermost Cretaceous Densuș-Ciula Formation, Hațeg Basin, Romania)

* 18 Dec 2023 -

A new gigantic titanosaurian sauropod from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina)

18 Dec 2023 -

Taxonomy of Plateosaurus and sauropodomorph fossils in Palaeontological Collection of Tübingen, Germany

15 Dec 2023 -

Geochemical extraction of ceratopsian remains from ironstone

15 Dec 2023 -

Digestibility of dinosaur food plants revisited and expanded: Previous data, new taxa, microbe donors, foliage maturity, and seasonality

14 Dec 2023 -

Four volcanically driven climatic perturbations led to enhanced continental weathering during the Late Triassic Carnian Pluvial Episode

13 Dec 2023 -

Osteology of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Jaklapallisaurus asymmetricus from the Late Triassic of central India

12 Dec 2023 -

Albertosaurus material from Danek Bonebed in Alberta with evidence of cannibalism

8 Dec 2023 -

Exceptionally preserved stomach contents of a young tyrannosaurid reveal an ontogenetic dietary shift in an iconic extinct predator

7 Dec 2023 -

Palynological reconstruction of the habitat and diet of Iguanodon bernissartensis in the Lower Cretaceous Morella Formation, NE Iberian Peninsula

5 Dec 2023 -

Restudy of shoulder motion in the theropod dinosaur Mononykus olecranus (Alvarezsauridae)

3 Dec 2023 -

First dinosaur tracks found in the Mulichinco Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Neuquén basin, Argentina: Paleoenvironmental implications

1 Dec 2023 -

A Jurassic Tibetan theropod tooth reveals dental convergency and its implication for identifying fragmentary fossils

1 Dec 2023 -

Reconstruction of the pelvic girdle and hindlimb musculature of the early tetanurans Piatnitzkysauridae (Theropoda, Megalosauroidea)

1 Dec 2023 -

Dental microwear texture analysis reveals a likely dietary shift within Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs

* 15 Nov 2023 -

A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur (Theropoda, Alvarezsauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia provides insights for bird-like sleeping behavior in non-avian dinosaurs

3 Nov 2023 -

Dinosaurs, Extinction Theories for

31 Oct 2023 -

Redescription and phylogenetic affinities of the Early Cretaceous enantiornithine Dapingfangornis sentisorhinus

18 May 2023 -

The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora)

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