Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study. The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie ...

For decades, a few hundred miles northeast of Beijing, the Yixian Formation has offered up a treasure trove of exquisite dinosaur fossils dating back to the early Cretaceous (about 145 to 66 million ...

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Dinosaurs dominated the land for around 180 million years. Yet we have little idea what life was like for these prehistoric icons as interpreting fossils that are at least 65 million years old is ...

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This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea. The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the ...

From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing dino, the year has been marked by awe-inspiring finds Riley Black - Science ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America. Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows that distinct “bioprovinces” of ...

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A fossil found in Argentina shows that up to the very end of the age of dinosaurs, they faced serious competition from other reptile species. A life reconstruction of Kostensuchus, a large, ...