In 2025, scientists have named several new dinosaur species and are learning new facts about the remarkable lives of dinosaurs.
Paleontologists have found a 'Dragon price' dinosaur — which may be a missing link in the Tyrannosaurus family tree — and a dinosaur with its skeletal remains covered with remarkably long spiky bones that reach several feet. These are just some of the new discoveries found by researchers this year.
Here are a few of this year's most unexpected and fascinating discoveries, ranging from the social lives of dinosaurs to still-undiscovered giants.
In June 2025, researchers announced the discovery of the Khankhuuluu mongoliensis dinosaur, meaning "Dragon Prince of Mongolia". Those 86 million-year-old bones appear to be connected to a dinosaur closely linked to the direct ancestor of all tyrannosaurs, if not the direct ancestral species itself, according to research published in the journal Nature.
This dinosaur may have sat in a Mongolian museum's collection long before it was discovered to be an unknown tyrannosaur species.
