For over 150m years dinosaurs were the dominant group of land animals, occupying every landmass and evolving into hundreds of different species. Sixty-six million years ago many of them ...

But they were not the first ones to rule the planet. Long before the dinosaurs appeared, there were many other animals that thrived and evolved in different eras. These creatures were grouped ...

Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were ...

"It indicates that these animals had the potential for a high metabolic rate." Birds are thought to be direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs, the group to which M. atopus belongs ...

Faeces and vomit fossils from dinosaurs reveal how the animals evolved to rule Earth. The study, which was published in Nature on 27 November, analysed hundreds of pieces of fossilized digestive ...

The explosion of animal diversity really kicked off during the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. The first animals that lived on Earth roamed the seas. The oceans were ruled by jawless ...

Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining ...

researchers have found physical characteristics that indicate many dinosaurs, including ancient birds, were warm-blooded. The presence of feathers is one such indication — feathers help animals ...