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 ...

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 ...

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

Our heroes live in vibrant prehistoric worlds, teeming with life. In The Journey North, we meet some of the weird and wonderful animals that live alongside them. Emphasis on weird.

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 ...

The first reported fossilised stomach contents from a sauropod, belonging to a Diamantinasaurus that lived 95 million years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...