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Bucking long-standing beliefs, a new fossil discovery disrupts our understanding of the prehistoric food chain.
There is strong evidence the dinosaurs endured a double-asteroid whammy.
Scientists inch closer to solving one of the greatest mysteries in paleontology.
The findings answer a long-standing question in paleontology.
Researchers have described the discovery as "mindblowing."
Cockroaches have been on Earth far longer than humans and may outlast us. Here are a few reasons why.
A short hand is better than a bitten one.
A truly spectacular find!
Big-brained birds were better at adapting to their rapidly shifting environment -- and that may have ultimately saved them.
Tolkien would be proud.
The land down under can now boast its own Titanosaur.
Astronomers have proposed a novel theory that explains the demise of the dinosaurs.
In a while, crocodile -- said the dinosaur. Because they were living in the same era.
While other dinosaurs crumbled during a global extinction, altered plant life provided the perfect conditions for the rise of giant sauropods.
Humans could have generally outrun T. rex.
The ancient mammal "bends and even breaks a lot of rules," said researchers.
This important discovery changes the narrative around what dinosaurs could and couldn't do.
Exploring the fascinating origins and meanings behind some of the most iconic dinosaur names.
One of the many mysteries behind dinosaurs may have been solved
It's the first time that scientists find a dinosaur affected by this disease.
Fossil footprints from the Karoo Basin of southern Africa could teach us more about how ecosystems respond to truly massive volcanic eruptions. The Karoo Basin is covered in extensive basaltic lava flows from the Early Jurassic. It’s believed that the intense volcanic activity recorded during that time had a powerful impact on global climate and […]
A perfectly preserved dinosaur specimen found in China was covered in feathers.
"It's not just a phase, mom!"
It's the oldest evidence of insects feeding on feathers.
Mammals quickly grew in size after the dinosaur linage collapsed, an exciting new study shows.
Michael Phelps doesn't hold a candle to these bad boys.
Molten rock shooting for the moon, huge tsunamis hundreds of feet tall, and global wildfires were triggered immediately after the impact.
The Tyrannosaurus rex, the most feared and iconic of all the dinosaurs, had a cooling system in its skull that allowed him to deal with prehistoric heat and humidity. The new study from scientists in Missouri, Ohio, and Florida, challenges previous beliefs about this cranial structure. T. rex, known as one of the largest meat-eating […]
They might also rewrite the history of megaraptors as we know them.
It's a great way to spend an afternoon or a day off.
The dinosaurs started and ended with a bang.
The research suggests the same pathway may have been taken by dinosaurs as they transitioned to birds.
Dinosaurs had a 9/10 chance they'd make it -- but they drew the short straw.
The 245-million-year-old fossils overturns the established view that early dino relatives were the size of a chicken and feeble.
It's all about the tail.
Unlike birds, dinosaurs spent a lot of time incubating their eggs.
T-Rex was the king of dinosaurs, and he had the bling to prove it.
Not all flying reptiles were big.
Dinosaurs might not have been as terrifying as we thought.
The specimens discovered by the researchers are one of a kind and, unlike previous amber fossils, the feathers were attached to tissue, too.
T. Rex grew its way to the top of the food chain. To get there though, the dinosaur first had to evolve a big brain with keen senses, a new research suggests.
Researchers have manipulated the genome of chicken embryos so that they develop dinosaur-like bones in their lower legs.
Birds are literally dinosaurs, so many scientists suspect millions of years ago dinosaurs shared similar courtship tactics like fancy plumage or complex dances to impress potential mates. While fossils can teach us so much about how dinosaurs looked and, in some instances, behaved (herd behavior, diet, hunting patterns etc.), inferences on mating rituals have been speculations at best thus far. A paper published in Scientific Reports offers some of the first tantalizing evidence that supports the idea that dinosaurs indeed employed similar courtship displays to modern birds. The researchers at University of Colorado, Denver found tracks etched into sandstone surfaces to create nest displays, hoping to attract a female to mate with. These scrapes are one of a kind, found nowhere else in the world.
An asteroid impact wiped out the dominant life forms on the planet, both on land and in the oceans, some 65 million years ago. Like in all matters of life, there are winners and losers, and incidentally those who had most to profit from the demise of the dinosaurs were also the weakest: mammals. Small, battered and restricted to only a couple of ecological niches, not only were the mammals more adapted to a post-apocalyptic Earth devoid of sunshine and with little food to spare, but once everything cleared they simply took over. Now, paleontologists have come across a totally new genus of ancient mammals that used to share the planet with the dinosaurs, but managed to survive the fallout and continued its lineage for millions of years after.
Traces of soft tissue and red blood cells were discovered by accident by a team of paleontologists and biologists while they were playing around in the lab with so-called "crap" fossils dug up more than 100 years ago in Canada. Usually, museum curators are very proud and picky about the works they display or hold in storage, and any analysis that involves breaking or sectioning a fossil is most often than not strictly forbidden. But these fossils - like a claw from a meat-eating therapod, the limb from a duck-billed dinosaur and even the toe of a triceratops-like animal - were fragments in poor conditions that nobody really cared about. One man's trash, another man's treasure.
A group of paleontologists have unearthed fossils preserved in pristine condition belonging to a new ancient avian species that lived some 130 million years ago. Dating suggests it's the oldest ancestor to modern day birds found thus far, beating the previous record holder by about six million years. The findings also suggest that different bird groups were already well established and spread through the world even in the early Cretaceous.
Some 65 million years ago an asteroid impact caused countless species of land, marine and plant life to become extinct, including the mighty dinosaur which dominated the planet for millions of years. Not all species of the dinosaur group vanished, however. You’ve guess right: birds! Now, a new study sheds light on why birds were […]
Fossils that capture a kinetic moment are truly fascinating because they surprise a scene or picture from millions of years ago, effectively acting as a time capsule. Paleontologists have found along the years all sorts of such scenes, be them dinosaurs engaged in battle before an unlikely event engulfed and preserved them or some other […]
Crossing the riverbed of Carrizo Creek in Oklahoma, a series of tracks made by a two-legged dinosaur have been preserved in time for 150 million years. The tracks reveal a most clumsy scene, as the dinosaur in question slipped for a second before going back to his beaten path. When first analyzedin the 1980s, paleontologists […]
Paleontologists have discovered an ancient nesting site in China where the oldest fossilized dinosaur embryos to date have been found. The find is extremely exciting from multiple perspectives. For one, many embryos in various development stages have been found which will certainly help scientists better their understanding of how dinosaurs grew (how fast, what bones […]
