Paleontologists
Powered flight in animals—that uses flapping wings to generate thrus—is a very energetically demanding mode of locomotion that requires many anatomical and physiological adaptations. In fact, the capability to develop it has only appeared four times in the...
New research addresses longstanding mystery on the anatomy of the Tyrannosaurus rex jaw.
Sunny forests morphed into the dark, dense ones that are typical today.
Here's an adorable, if wholly hypothetical, thought: two dinosaurs in love. Jim Henson's anthropomorphic sitcom "Dinosaurs" comes to mind. But what exactly would dinosaur mating look like — in the real world, not on TV? ...
An international team of paleontologists has examined a collection of 72.5-million-year-old tyrannosaur — probably Albertosaurus — footprints from...
Paleontologists have unearthed the 67,000-year-old fossilized remains from three extinct species of giant cloud rats in several caves on the Philippine island of Luzon.
Flying “Wing Lizards” with necks as long as a giraffe’s and a fearsome predator not named T rex. are among five fascinating dinosaur findings.
Tyrannosaurs — theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now North America and Asia between 100 and 66 million years ago (...
Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found.
Studies of ancient mammal remains reveal how the planet’s biggest extinction event played out on land and in the sea.