AFP – Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a strange dinosaur with a hump that they believe is the forerunner of flesh-eating leviathans which once ruled the planet.

LiveScience.com – A hunchback dinosaur of sorts once roamed what is now central
Spain. The meat-eating beast sported a humplike structure low on its back, a
feature never previously described in dinosaurs, and one that has scientists
scratching their heads.

LiveScience.com – A voyage to the outer edges of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has
brought back pieces of an ancient, fossilized ancestor to the vast,
living ecosystem.

LiveScience.com – Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically
changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according
to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will
live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because
the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.

AFP – The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs.

AP – Around 70 million years ago a stocky dragon stalked what is now Romania.

AP – Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say.

Discovery of two new horned dinosaurs in southern Utah are part of an entirely new assemblage of dinosaurs found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument, and which confirm that dinosaurs living in the area called Laramidia were divided into at least northern and southern provinces.

A new research paper highlights recent tyrannosaur discoveries and complex analyses of the biology of certain species. The paper includes a new family tree for T. rex and its relatives.

Palaeontologists are forever claiming that their latest fossil discovery will “rewrite evolutionary history.” Is this just boasting or does our “knowledge” of evolution radically change every time we find a new fossil?