Images from sites of two important archaeological discoveries published this week. The huge flying reptile Dearc sgiathanach unearthed on the Isle of Skye and the fish fossils in North Dakota that ...

A new species of dinosaur named Duonychus tsogtbaatari has been discovered by scientists, and unlike other therizinosaurs, ...

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

On the Isle of Skye in Scotland, researchers extracted fossils from a cliff, revealing a 166-million-year-old ornithopod dinosaur. The bones, initially discovered in the 1970s, were part of a ...

A fossil that was first discovered over 50 years ago has finally been identified as a dinosaur that lived around 166 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period.

Located off the northwestern coast of Scotland, the Isle of Skye is the location of several dinosaur fossils and footprints from the Middle Jurassic period, which is poorly represented in the ...

A fossilized dinosaur skeleton, first spotted in 1973 on the Isle of Skye, has finally been excavated and studied, revealing Scotland’s most complete Middle Jurassic dinosaur find. The pony-sized ...

is the most complete dinosaur skeleton found to date in Scotland. The Isle of Skye has become a focal point for Jurassic discoveries in recent years. Other finds include the world's largest ...

The fossils were originally found in 1973 but not extracted until 2018, researchers said. Panciroli, et al (2025) Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh In ...