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!

(Links to external sites, some may be paywalled or unavailable to public)

2/17/25

Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment

2/17/25

Palaeobiology and osteohistology of South African sauropodomorph dinosaurs

2/12/25

Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China

2/11/25

Revisiting Bird’s swimming sauropod: new insights on Manus-dominated Dinosaur Tracks from the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera, Texas

2/5/25

Osteohistology of the unusually fast-growing theropod dinosaur Ceratosaurus

2/5/25

Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity

2/5/25

Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs

2/3/25

A new species of Xingxiulong (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the lower Jurassic Lufeng formation of Yunnan Province, China

1/31/25

Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs

1/31/25

New sauropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and their implications for sauropod dental evolution

1/30/25

ew information on Bonapartenykus (Alvarezsauridae: Theropoda) from the Allen Formation (middle Campanian-lower Maastrichtian) of Río Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina clarifies the Patagonykinae body plan

1/30/25

Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia and the macroevolutionary history of early eusauropods

1/29/25

Census of currently known specimens of the Late Jurassic sauropod Haplocanthosaurus from the Morrison Formation, USA

1/28/25

Intraskeletal histovariability and skeletochronology in an ornithopod dinosaur from the Maestrazgo Basin (Teruel, Spain)

1/28/25

A long-handed new ornithomimid dinosaur from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico

1/25/25

The appendicular osteology of the Early Jurassic theropod Piatnitzkysaurus floresi and its implications on the morphological disparity of non-coelurosaurian tetanurans

1/24/25

Anatomical description and digital reconstruction of the skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from China

1/24/25

First occurrence of the duck-billed dinosaur tribe Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) in South China

1/23/25

Accounting for sampling heterogeneity suggests a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs

1/17/25

A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes

1/17/25

Dinosaur tracks from the Guará Formation (Brazil) shed light on the biodiversity of a South American Late Jurassic humid desert

1/17/25

Determining the relative scientific and cultural “value” of the UK's in-situ dinosaur track sites

1/16/25

Reduced contribution of sulfur to the mass extinction associated with the Chicxulub impact event

1/15/25

Cursorial ecomorphology and temporal patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution during the mid-Cretaceous

1/15/25

Growing with dinosaurs: a review of dinosaur reproduction and ontogeny

1/15/25

Cursorial ecomorphology and temporal patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution during the mid-Cretaceous

1/15/25

Reconstructing dinosaur locomotion

1/14/25

Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny

1/12/25

Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic characterization of Upper Jurassic sedimentary sequences with dinosaur footprints of the M'Goun Geopark (High Atlas, Morocco)

1/11/25

Multiple lines of evidence support anagenesis in Daspletosaurus and cladogenesis in derived tyrannosaurines

1/10/25

Morphological and Phylogenetic Significance of the First Adult Humerus of the Patagonian Cretaceous Theropod Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas, 1998

1/10/25

Habitat preference of the dinosaurs from the Ibero-Armorican domain (Upper Cretaceous, south-western Europe)

1/10/25

Habitat preference of the dinosaurs from the Ibero-Armorican domain (Upper Cretaceous, south-western Europe)

1/10/25

New lithostrotian specimens (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Mato Grosso State (Western Brazil) and comments about tail injuries in sauropod dinosaurs

1/9/25

A new ornithomimid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan

1/9/25

Burrow collapse is not the only explanation for rapid, noncatastrophic preservation of 3D dinosaurs

1/9/25

Exceptional and striking 3D track-detached undertrack specimens from the Upper Jurassic of Asturias (N Spain)

1/8/25

Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA)

1/3/25

A new Archaeopteryx from the lower Tithonian Mörnsheim Formation at Mühlheim (Late Jurassic)

12/30/24

Allosaurus europaeus (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) Revisited and Taxonomy of the Genus

12/30/24

A New Species of Ankylosaurian Dinosaur——Tianzhenosaurus chengi sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of Tianzhen County, Shanxi Province, China

12/30/24

A grallatorid track site from the Lower Cretaceous Hekou Group, Gansu Province, China

12/28/24

First dinosaur ichnofauna from the Bauru Group indicates Cenomanian–Turonian events led to an ‘Ornithischian Hiatus’ in the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil

12/28/24

A new diminutive species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group, northern China

12/27/24

Hindlimb locomotor biomechanics of the derived therizinosaur Nothronychus: Functional changes in the line to birds and convergence with large-bodied neornitheans

12/25/24

Cranial anatomy of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) sheds new light on bird skull evolution

12/23/24

Mandibular biomechanics of Acheroraptor temertyorum (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) with implications for the feeding ecology and behaviour

12/21/24

Chimerism in specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda)

12/20/24

Increased sampling reveals the complex evolution of sauropod dinosaur tooth replacement rates

12/20/24

Primary study of a new dinosaur tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Matoushan Formation, Yunnan Province, China

12/20/24

Theropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous of central Spain: assessing the paleobiogeographic history of European abelisaurids

12/19/24

Bone histology and growth curve of the earliest ceratopsian Yinlong downsi from the Upper Jurassic of Junggar Basin, Northwest China

12/19/24

New evidence for the earliest ornithischian dinosaurs from Asia

12/18/24

Osteology, relationship, and feeding ecology of the theropod dinosaur Noasaurus leali, from the Late Cretaceous of North-Western Argentina

12/18/24

Terrestrial evidence for volcanogenic sulfate-driven cooling event ~30 kyr before the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

12/18/24

Dinosaur palaeoneurology: an evolving science

12/15/24

Newly discovered tracksites from Middle Jurassic Chaya Group of Eastern Tibet, China, with the implications of saurischian distribution in around the eastern Tethys

12/12/24

The largest sauropodomorph skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China

12/11/24

The spatiotemporal distribution of Mesozoic dinosaur diversity

12/11/24

Body size and evolutionary rate analyses reveal complex evolutionary history of Alvarezsauria

12/5/24

Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth-based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian) via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine learning methods

11/30/24

Evaluating the palaeoecology of the Megaraptora (Dinosauria: Theropoda) through biomechanical approaches

11/27/24

Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy

11/25/24

Individual, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic variation in the dentition of hadrosaurids (Iguanodontia: Ornithischia)

11/20/24

Fibular reduction and the evolution of theropod locomotion

11/19/24

Unenlagiid affinities for Imperobator antarcticus (Paraves: Theropoda): paleobiogeographical implications

11/18/24

Micro-XRF Mapping Elucidates the Taphonomy of Two Early Cretaceous Paravian Fossils from Western Liaoning, China

11/17/24

Trace element taphonomy of the Hanson Ranch Edmontosaurus bonebed supports its origin via transportation of a mass death assemblage

11/13/24

The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs

11/8/24

A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China

11/6/24

New evidence for the presence of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

11/5/24

Microstructure and development of the dermal ossicles of Antarctopelta oliveroi (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria): A complex morphogenetic system deciphered through three-dimensional X-ray microtomography

11/4/24

Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened-feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China

10/30/24

Immature skulls of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

10/30/24

Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians

10/30/24

Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain

10/30/24

A new sauropod dinosaur hindlimb from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, UK

10/30/24

A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus

10/28/24

Correlation of sub-centennial-scale pulses of initial Central Atlantic Magmatic Province lavas and the end-Triassic extinctions

10/28/24

Occurrence of Centrosaurus apertus (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) in Saskatchewan, Canada, and expanded dinosaur diversity in the easternmost exposure of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation

10/25/24

Variability of spinosaurid teeth in the Barremian of the province of Teruel (eastern Spain)

10/24/24

A new oviraptorosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Miaogou Formation of western Inner Mongolia, China

10/21/24

Theropod trackways as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior

10/16/24

First Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from Patagonia

10/16/24

A new maniraptoran femur with alvarezsaurian affinities from the Plottier Formation (Coniacian-Santonian), northern Patagonia

10/14/24

The smallest known complete dinosaur fossil eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of South China

10/14/24

Cranial anatomy of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia and the implications for sauropod cranial evolution

10/9/24

New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus

10/9/24

A new carcharodontosaurid specimen sheds light on the anatomy of South American giant predatory dinosaurs

10/9/24

Upper Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur tracks, palaeosols, and sedimentary deposits - Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil

10/9/24

The ankylosaurid neomorphic skull elements

10/9/24

New theropod dinosaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the Kem Kem Group (Eastern Morocco) clarify spinosaurid morphology

10/8/24

A new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA

10/8/24

Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs

10/1/24

Preliminary Study on the Reconstruction and Function of the Hyperelongate Neural Spines in the Dorsal Vertebrae of Deinocheirus mirificus (Theropoda: Ornithomimosauria)

9/30/24

A new “silesaurid” from the oldest dinosauromorph-bearing beds of South America provides insights into the early evolution of bird-line archosaurs

9/30/24

Modified laminar bone did not stop sauropods from achieving large body sizes

9/27/24

Sauropod tail clubs from the Kota Formation (Lower to Middle Jurassic) of India and their implications for early sauropod evolution

9/25/24

A New Tyrant Dinosaur from the Late Campanian of Mexico Reveals a Tribe of Southern Tyrannosaurs

9/24/24

Forearm range of motion in Allosaurus fragilis (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

UNEXPECTED
DINO LESSON

Scientific Papers

UNEXPECTED
DINO LESSON

UNEXPECTED DINO LESSON

Scientific Papers

UNEXPECTED DINO LESSON

UNEXPECTED
DINO LESSON

UNEXPECTED
DINO LESSON