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 ...

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

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

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

Both birds and reptiles are descended from the group Reptilia, which are diapsids, or animals with two openings on each side of the skull. So from a phylogenetic standpoint, birds are reptiles.

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

Giant amphibians were once dominant predators up until the rise of dinosaurs in the Triassic Era. This new study detailed how they moved. An artistic recreation of a Rhinesuchus, a giant ...

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

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 ...