The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

A set of five fossilised small dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period has been discovered in northwest China’s Gansu Province. It is believed to be among the smallest known dinosaur ...

The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...

"Dinosaurs started small, playing a minor role in their ecosystems during the Triassic," Heath said. "They lived in the ...

Dinosaurs didn’t start as the colossal creatures we often imagine; they began small. The species’ diet remains unclear, as no cranial material was recovered. However, early sauropod relatives are ...

During the 20 million years or so that it existed, Laramidia seems to have been a runaway dinosaur factory, cranking out large and small dinosaurs in a surprising diversity of species. Figuring ...

According to lead author Xing Lida, associate professor at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, previous studies have shown that some groups of small biped dinosaurs had demonstrated ...

and its relatively small size would have allowed it to navigate dense undergrowth. Without ornate defensive features or the huge size of its fellow dinosaurs, Fona likely had to rely on speed ...

The researchers also found evidence that silesaurids, long thought to be cousins of dinosaurs, might actually be ancestors of ...