I am a Staff Writer for Newsweek's international desk. I report on current events in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the former Eastern Bloc. Email me in English, Russian, Spanish or French.

The enormous dinosaur was identified from seven of its ... marine reptiles,” study author Dr. Alexander Averianov of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Fox News. Averianov’s co-author ...

Fossils of a newly discovered species of Sauropods (“lizard-hipped” dinosaurs) were unearthed ... and also “Rossica” – “Russian” in Latin. As a joke paleontologists call this ...

Being a member of the international scientific team, a student from the Faculty of Geology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University has taken part in study and description of a new genus and ...

In 2013, the Russian-Belgian team excavated many dinosaur fossils, as well as plant and insect fossils. The feathers were studied by Dr Maria McNamara (University of Bristol and University College ...

The 1967 Russian cartoon Mountain of Dinosaurs used extinction in a more specific and culturally subversive way. Rather than a literal lesson about dinosaurs–the fossil record doesn’t contain ...

According to the scientists, the egg belongs to a carnivorous dinosaur-troodontidae ... from the Institute of Paleontology in (the Russian Academy of Sciences RAS) Moscow with whom we have ...