Scientists discovered a 125-million-year-old dinosaur in China with skin cells still intact and hollow spikes no dinosaur has ever had

A 125-million-year-old dinosaur fossil named Haolong dongi shows remarkable skin preservation. This juvenile iguanodontian ...

How a fireman helped make dinosaur fossils cool again

Travis Enright is four months into investigating what he calls "a 100-million-year-old cold case" involving a 10-metre-long aquatic dinosaur called Moria.
Ars Technica

Diplodocus may have been one cool dinosaur—thanks to its skin

Finding any fossil skin is extraordinary; finding dinosaur skin is that much more rare. So when Tess Gallagher and her mom excavated patches of skin from one of the largest dinosaurs to exist, there ...
NPR

'Edward Scissorhands of dinosaurs' and more cool dino discoveries from 2025

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION Jan. 13, 2026: A previous version of this story mistakenly indicated that the Shri rapax could fly.] SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: Dozens of new dinosaurs were described last year ...