Just a few fossil fragments of a tiny creature discovered thousands of miles north of its contemporaries have shaken our understanding of global dinosaur history. "It was basically the size of a ...
Studying bromalites helped paleontologists piece together how the reptiles came to rule a part of the prehistoric world. Coprolites of herbivorous dinosaurs that were found to contain numerous plant ...
In a new study, researchers said they uncovered part of a skull as well as arm, leg and tail bones from the Lago Colhué Huapi ...
For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...
More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the equator in what is now Wyoming. That small but mighty dinosaur is changing ...
DEAD for eons, dinosaurs are still a huge source of thrills and chills. Mystery surrounds them. Why and how did these creatures come to exist? What made them disappear? Interactive exhibits at two ...
The world's most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realized. Research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ...
Everybody knows the name Tyrannosaurus rex. The most famous dinosaur to ever walk the Earth has been made iconic by movies like "The Lost World" and "Jurassic Park," but through its notoriety, it has ...
Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the Qinglongshan site in China ...