To date there is no evidence of any shelled Dicynodon and recent more complete fossils have revealed they looked more like Hippopotamus.
The fossil of an Archaeopteryx found in Germany reveals that its feet were similar to that of other dinosaurs.
The fossil reveals that the species was omnivorous, which is unusual for the group of predatory dinosaurs that it belongs to.
Newfound fossils reveal a beast that may be the biggest meat-eating dinosaur known, scientists reported in the current issue of the journal Nature.
But now fossils discovered in northeastern China reveal the existence of a bird that promises to upset such established thinking about bird evolution.
These fossils reveal that at this time the forests consisted of large conifers, with mosses and ferns in the undergrowth.
Although the evidence is rare, fossils reveal that there were dinosaurs in New Zealand.
Later fossils revealed the true nature of the thumb spikes, although their exact function is still debated.
However, the fossil discovered later in France revealed the manus (hands) to have had three digits, similar to other members of compsognathid genera.
The adult weighs 70 pounds (fossils reveal that prehistoric penguins were as tall as six feet).