The first vertebrates took to the skies sometime during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. They weren’t birds, ...

Scientists are studying two dinosaurs found buried together in prehistoric battle. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is preparing to study a fossil it has held for years — a pair of ...

While dino bones from the Late Triassic Period are few and far between, the other clues they left behind can reveal how this epic saga played out to those with the stomach to decipher them. Eons is ...

Thanks to a couple of amateur bone collectors and the research of a paleontologist at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the mystery surrounding a dinosaur that for a century had only a ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to ...

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 ...

The bones of a small mystery dinosaur unearthed in Colorado have now been moved to London, England. The naming of the bones, which are part of a new species called Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, is ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It was thought to be caused by a volcanic eruption. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be. In ...

Scientists once thought of dinosaurs as sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Then research suggested that some could control their body temperature, but when and how that shift came about remained a ...

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

Paleontologists have turned detectives and believe they may have solved the mystery behind a mass dinosaur grave uncovered in Canada. The team is patiently digging up the fossils of thousands of ...