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The sell-out Glasgow light show is coming back with an adventurous theme for its fifth year.

The bizarre Jakapil kaniukura resembled an armored pitbull trotting on its hind legs

Australian scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs -- like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus -- supported their gigantic bodies on land. In a study published in the journal Science Advances on August 10, a University of Queensland and Monash University-led team used 3D modelling and engineering methods to…

Discovery of ostracods thought to be a first for Scotland

Jakapil kaniukura may have had a two-legged stance unlike most armoured dinosaurs of this kind, scientists say

Such eye socket shapes helped large dinosaurs evolve high bite forces without compromising skull stability, scientists say

Oval eye sockets of these predators could have evolved to help the skull absorb impact as they pounced on prey, the study suggests.

Specialised shape thought to have evolved to let dinosaur spread stress across skull as it chewed prey

For the first time, we have shown that a soft heel pad was crucial to how sauropod dinosaurs supported their immense weight, according to a new digital reconstruction of their feet.