Around 70 million years ago, this reptile roamed the lands of the southeastern United States, feasting upon dinosaurs.

In 1989, paleontologist Darren Tanke suggested that similar breaks were the result of mating as one dinosaur mounted the ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the traits that helped make the dinosaurs such an evolutionary success story - thriving for 165 million years - was their fast growth rate, from massive meat-eaters like ...

"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of the University of New South Wales Press, Ltd."--Title page verso. "The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China ...

Reconstruction of the earliest ichthyosaur and the 250-million-year-old ecosystem found on Spitsbergen. Credit: Esther van Hulsen For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ...

Had a volcano-driven mass extinction not occurred at the end of the Triassic 201 million years ago, we likely would have had something closer to an Age of Crocodiles than the Age of Dinosaurs that ...

There are an estimated 50 billion birds flying, walking and even swimming on planet Earth according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That number is divided ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...