Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Reporting fromNatural History Museum, London Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC News The full name of the new species is Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae dinosaur Gwyndaf Hughes Science videographer A labrador-sized dinosaur was wrongly categorised when it was found and is actually a new species, scientists have discovered. Its new name is Enigmacursor – meaning puzzling runner...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Masato Hattori An artist’s impression of Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly discovered tyrannosaur ancestor Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur – in the collection of a Mongolian museum – that they say “rewrites” the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs. Researchers concluded that two 86 million-year-old skeletons they studied belonged...
Alice Cunningham BBC News, Suffolk Moyse’s Hall Museum/West Suffolk Council Remains of the Berthasaura leopoldinae were first found in Brazil over 10 years ago The world’s first accurate sculpture of a recently documented toothless dinosaur has gone on display. Remains of the Berthasaura leopoldinae were first discovered in Brazil in 2012 and publicly revealed by...
Love Taupō Some have called it an “eyesaur”. Many more have described it as “fabulous”. But one word Boom Boom, a seven-metre tall stainless steel dinosaur sculpture in New Zealand, could never be associated with is “boring”. Just days after the sauropod statue was installed in Taupō Sculpture Park, in the scenic centre of New...
Tim Dodd Climate and science reporter Artist’s impression by Masato Hattori Duonychus tsogtbaatari would have been adept at grasping vegetation A rare new species of two-clawed dinosaur has been discovered by scientists in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, was unique within a group of dinosaurs called Therizinosaurs, which stood on their hind...