Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

Palaeontologists are captivated by the size of record-breaking dinosaurs worldwide. Through measuring bone proportions and ...

Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, weighing in at 7.4 tonnes and ...

If we struggle to work out what the whole animal looked like most of the time, how can we begin to piece together their lives and how they behaved?

Most of the dinosaur fossils found in Victoria belong to small plant-eaters called ornithopods. But there are also a few theropod fossils—a diverse group that includes all known carnivorous ...

For example, we have well-studied fossils of carnivorous dinosaurs with the bones of other animals inside them. Although is incontrovertible that the carnivorous dinosaurs ate these other animals ...

Theropods are classified as carnivorous dinosaurs that are able to walk on two legs with hollow, thin-walled bones and usually small forelimbs – the tyrannosaurus is a famous example.

One of the Victorian carcharodontosaur shinbones was found on the Otway Coast. The other was found on the Bass Coast, in rocks nearly 10 million years older. This demonstrates these predators were ...

Image credit: Nadir Kinani/Museums Victoria Most of the dinosaur fossils found in Victoria belong to small plant-eaters called ornithopods. But there are also a few theropod fossils — a diverse group ...