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The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2024
From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing ...
In 2024, scientists described and named a staggering 190 new species, including a vegetarian piranha and a rat confined to a ...
A vegetarian piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously unknown that have been named this year.
Further afield, NHM scientists described a sauropodomorph dinosaur from Zimbabwe and a stegosaur from China. Our world is changing fast. Climate change and biodiversity loss are just some of the ...
Picture: Pablo Gallego/Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew/PA Wire Scientists also named two plant-eating dinosaurs this year — a sauropodomorph from Zimbabwe and a stegosaur from China, alongside new ...
Scientists also named two plant-eating dinosaurs this year – a sauropodomorph from Zimbabwe and a stegosaur from China, alongside new fossil spiders, a lizard-like reptile and a couple of mammals.
This find adds to the diversity of known stegosaur species and provides valuable information on the evolution of their unique defensive structures. It was also found how Stegosaurs used their spiky ...