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.

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for at least 230 million years. But so far, not a single trace of dinosaur ...

Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic ...

Analysis of feathers trapped in amber sheds new light on evolutionary path that led to early birds’ ability to fly.

Dinosaurs belong to the reptilian group known as diapsids, which also includes modern birds and reptiles like lizards. Mammals, on the other hand, have their roots in an entirely different branch ...

Dinosaurs have become some of the strangest animals to ever exist on this planet. Here are some of the most amazing facts ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world ...

Dinosaurs belong to a broad group of reptiles called archosaurs. Members of this group — for example, large herbivores called aetosaurs, as well as carnivorous creatures called rauisuchids and ...

The 36 well-preserved cervical vertebrae and 50 neck bones indicate that Traskasaura had a very long neck. While not much is known about its behavior, the “fascinating and long list of autapomorphic ...

That the place of honor should be given to this skeleton of an amphibious dinosaur of the age of reptiles is proper, for it is the first of its kind to be mounted complete. The Museum's ...