To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build evolutionary trees from hundreds of anatomical traits—hip sockets, vertebrae, ...

The dome-headed dinosaur is easily one of the most standout-looking creatures of the Cretaceous period. The image of their ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

The dome-headed dinosaur is easily one of the most standout-looking creatures of the Cretaceous period. The image of their hardy dome-heads has slowly seeped into the public imagination via movies ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil evidence suggests their babies were frequently eaten by multiple predators, making ...

Scientists have discovered that dinosaurs are even cooler than we previously thought – or, at it turns out, not cooler but warmer. New research has put forward that some varieties of dinosaur may have ...

A tiny plant-eating dinosaur that was about the same size of a chicken and occupied what’s now northern Spain some 125 million years ago is baffling scientists. The dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum—named ...

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, ...

Babies and very young sauropods – the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to ...

The Iguanodon-like dinosaur had a covering of hollow spikes, according to new research. A new Chinese dinosaur shows that at ...