Scientists examined a dino mummy called "Dakota." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Around 67 million years ago in what is ...

Unhealed bite marks on fossilized dinosaur skin suggest that the animal’s carcass was scavenged before being covered in sediment, researchers report October 12 in PLOS ONE. The finding ...

This herbivorous dinosaur, known for its heavy armor and ... leading researchers to theorize that its carcass was carried into the sea during a flooding event and preserved through a process ...

Dakota wasn’t buried quickly. In fact, Drumheller-Horton and her colleagues propose, more than 66 million years ago the dinosaur’s carcass sat exposed on the ground and dried out over the ...

[Related: Dinosaur cannibalism was real ... “This makes sense logically too, because a single sauropod carcass had enough calories to sustain 25 or so allosaurs for weeks or even months ...

This armored dinosaur is so magnificently preserved that ... Scientists suspect its carcass may have been carried from a river to the sea in a flooding event; it may have bobbed at the surface ...

But a new dinosaur named Fona herzogae presents an ... Avrahami says, could cause a carcass to rot, pull apart, and scatter. Creating underground refuges could help explain why small, plant ...