Feathered dinosaurs

Breeding your Pals in Palworld is one of the most efficient ways to improve and take on tougher Pals. Not only do you have the opportunity to create rare Fusion Pals this way, but you also get your hands on some end-game level Pals way before you could reasonably fight them in the wild. Faleris is arguably one of the toughest Pals you can fight in the game, right up there with the Legendaries, so breeding one is a much more appealing prospect than grinding to take one on in a fight. Still, you need to find a very…

About 125 million years ago, a young mammal about the size of a possum bit down on the side of a beaked dinosaur nearly three times its size. The animals died like that, entangled and at odds with each other, a fossilized tableau of the dinosaurian-mammalian power shift that would finally come about 60 million years later.Exclusive Jurassic World Dominion Bonus Feature ClipThose are the certainties of the Cretaceous Period exchange that wereencased in time until this week, when a team of paleontologists revealed the…

An illustration of Microraptor chowing down on a mammal foot.Illustration: Ralph AttanasiaPaleontologists taking a second look at a species of small, four-winged dinosaur have found a fossilized mammalian foot in the predator’s stomach.It’s the first concrete evidence of dinosaurs eating mammals, the researchers say. Specimens of the dinosaur, Microraptor zhaoinus, have been discovered containing ancient birds, fish, and lizards, so the mammalian find is just the latest known source of protein for this spunky hunter. The…

The 70-odd-million-year-old remains were found in southern Mongolia.Illustration: Yusik Choi.Paleontologists discovered a 71-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur in Southern Mongolia that they believe had a body built for swimming and diving for prey. Though it looks a lot like a modern bird, it’s actually a non-avian dinosaur, meaning it’s likely an example of convergent evolution, a phenomenon in which unrelated creaturesevolve similar traits. The dinosaur is called Natovenator polydontus, or “swimming hunter with…

Rendering of a reclining Psittacosaurus, with insert showing the umbilical scar.Illustration: Jagged Fang DesignsForget dinosaurs engaged in vicious combat. Put aside terrifying fangs and claws. Scientists have discovered a softer side to dinosaurs: the reptilian equivalent of a belly button.For the first time ever, scientists have identified an umbilical scar on a non-avian dinosaur. The paper announcing this find is published in BMC Biology, and it’s yet another exciting discovery from a particularly rare and…