When you think of dinosaurs, your first thoughts may include some of the more notorious species. In fact, of the more than 700 dinosaurs scientists have discovered, most people think of the larger ...

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A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

Two hundred years ago, an English geologist named William Buckland found a fossil unlike anything he’d ever seen. He called it "Megalosaurus" and thought it belonged to a large lizard. Little did he ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life-size replica of an Argentinosaurus. Did dinosaurs mingle with other types of dinosaur? Maybe, say scientists. Rolf ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species that lived in what is now Utah around 99 million years ago and appears to have been adapted to underground living. The previously unknown species ...

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds. This discovery by a team of ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Dinosaurs were once assumed to have been ectothermic, or cold-blooded, an idea that makes sense given that they were reptiles. While scientists had previously discovered evidence of dinosaur species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 200 million-year-old slab of rock has been found to have 66 fossilized dinosaur footprints from the Early Jurassic. The rock was ...