The specimen, named Xiphodracon goldencapensis, also known as the "Sword Dragon of Dorset," was found near Golden Cap in ...

The Jurassic period was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush vegetation and abundant life. Many new dinosaurs emerged—in great numbers. Above, Dimorphodon reptiles fly over a ...

Scientists were able to date the tracks to the middle of the Jurassic Period, around 166 million years ago. A team of more than 100 scientists, volunteers and students conducted a week-long dig in ...

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(CNN) — Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England. The remarkable find, first ...

It began last June, when a worker at a limestone quarry in southeast England felt “unusual bumps” as he was digging up clay. Now a team of over 100 researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and ...

A team of palaeontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of more than three metres - making it one of the largest pterosaurs ...

LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Three dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period will go under the hammer at a London auction on Thursday, with price estimates of millions of dollars. Christie's is offering ...

The prints were made by both long-necked sauropods and a predator, megalosaurus, and were found in one of the largest discoveries in decades. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from London Quarry workers in ...