Birds are actually dinosaurs. They evolved from theropods, a group of mostly meat-eaters that included Velociraptor and T. rex. Pterodactyls are flying reptiles that lived at the same time as the ...

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

Modern birds share many traits with dinosaurs, including hollow bones and wishbones. Early birds were also better able to survive the cold conditions after the asteroid strike than many reptiles.

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

Scientists use different methods to calculate size and weight so they don’t always agree, but judging by bones found, a good ...

Anybody who has ever watched a fictional movie featuring dinosaurs would likely have been led to believe that the ...

Images from sites of two important archaeological discoveries published this week. The huge flying reptile Dearc sgiathanach unearthed on the Isle of Skye and the fish fossils in North Dakota that ...

Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, weighing in at 7.4 tonnes and ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...