“You can own a 3-foot-by-3-foot painting or have a giant skull that ate prey in one bite. Which would you want? Plus, the auctions have made dinosaurs desirable by marketing them and publicizing the ...

All of the individual skull bones are three dimensional and detached from each other, making it one of the most scientifically valuable dinosaur skulls ever found. This means scientists can study the ...

The skull is from Vegavis iaai, an extinct duck-like bird that lived during the Late Cretaceous, just before non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. It’s one of very few 3D bird skulls known to ...

Stephen Poropat (left) and Phil Mannion examine the dinosaur skull. On the righthand-side of the composite image is an illustration of the dinosaur species Diamantinasaurus matildae. Source ...