When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? Maybe you think of four-legged herbivores like Apatosaurus or Triceratops. Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or ...

SNSB and LMU Paleontologists have identified a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, about 95 million years old. What makes this discovery so special is ...

A huge dinosaur skull found in southern China appears to belong to an entirely new species, according to a group of paleontologists that studied the specimen. Paleontologists found the fossilized ...

What are the best dinosaur games on PC? Ever since we watched Jurassic Park as kids we’ve wondered what it would be like to co-habit with the most terrifying of Earth’s creatures. Whether you ...

Because the quarry is located in an area famed among paleontologists as a hotbed for evidence of dinosaur activity, the experts were called in. Not long after, it was determined that those strange ...

Just a few fossil fragments of a tiny creature discovered thousands of miles north of its contemporaries have shaken our understanding of global dinosaur history. "It was basically the size of a ...

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Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England. The remarkable find ...

Pterosaurs - commonly known as pterodactyls - lived some 225 million years ago, and thrived for more than 100 million years before perishing with the dinosaurs in the extinction at the end of the ...