An international research team has determined that Troodon, a dinosaur very close to modern birds, was a warm-blooded animal (an endotherm), but had a reproductive system similar to that of modern ...

Scientists disclose that Troodon was exceptionally intelligent in relation to other dinosaurs that could be found at the time. It wandered in late Cretaceous on the landscapes of North America ...

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When people think of dinosaurs, they often imagine gigantic predators such as Tyrannosaurus rex or the horned Triceratops, creatures defined by size, strength, and ferocity. For many years, dinosaurs ...

The image of cold-blooded, scaly, reptilian dinosaurs imprinted in our imaginations by movies like “Jurassic Park” may be inaccurate. “Dinosaurs sit at an evolutionary point between birds, which are ...

It's a discovery 65 million years in the making. Despite most scientists generally accepting that dinosaurs were cold-blooded creatures, a new study suggests they were in fact warm-blooded. The ...

Paleontologists have identified certain dinosaurs as highly intelligent based on brain size and observed behaviors. These ...

How were they able to survive in this harsh environment? All told, the Arctic in the Cretaceous Period was a rough place to live, especially in winter. And yet, the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs ...

FRANKFURT. In millions of years and with a long sequence of small changes, evolution has shaped a particular group of dinosaurs, the theropods, into the birds we watch fly around the planet today. In ...