Spiked armor, tyrannosaurids, and new discoveries from the early development of birds mark important milestones in 2025.

(Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling anatomy ...

If you’ve seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa’s Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.

Scientists have known for some time that birds like chickens and ostriches are the closest living relatives of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Now, a newly discovered fossil of a bird-like dinosaur could ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

A small dinosaur discovered, Pulaosaurus qinglong, had seeds in its stomach and a “vocal box,” revealing how dinosaurs might have sounded.

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