LiveScience.com – A three-horned dinosaur long known as Torosaurus may actually represent an adult Triceratops, according to paleontologists.

AP – Scientists have discovered a cave filled with 15-million-year-old fossils of prehistoric marsupials in the Outback, a rare find that has revealed some surprising similarities between the creatures and modern-day kangaroos and koalas.

LiveScience.com – More than 20 marsupials, some still suckling newborns, plunged
to their deaths 15 million years ago through a vertical cave entrance obscured
by vegetation, new fossil evidence suggests.

AFP – The last ancestor shared by monkeys and humans probably lived between 28 and 24 million years ago, several million later than previously thought, fossils unveiled Wednesday have revealed.

LiveScience.com – Our lineage might have diverged from our monkey relatives
later than previously thought, a new primate fossil from Saudi Arabia now
suggests.

LiveScience.com – As fearsome as giant tyrannosaurs such as T. rex
were, scientists have found what may be the first evidence of these
“terrible lizards” being dainty scavengers.

AP – Does a 25-foot-tall, 122-foot-long dinosaur need a permit to avoid extinction?

One of the ocean’s most formidable marine predators, the mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel. That theory is debunked in a new article. Scientists have reconceived the animal’s morphology, or body plan, based on a spectacular specimen housed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Triceratops and Torosaurus were the same dinosaur at different stages of growth, according to new research. Since the late 1800s, scientists have believed that Triceratops and Torosaurus were two different types of dinosaurs. Triceratops had a three-horned skull with a rather short frill, whereas Torosaurus had a much bigger frill with two large holes through it.

When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur’s appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Mojoceratops. With the publication of Longrich’s paper describing his find in the Journal of Paleontology, the name is now official.