Researchers are uncovering the evolutionary steps that set the stage for dinosaurs to rule the planet Amy McDermott, PNAS Front Matter Paleontologists have found early examples of theropods, the group ...

66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to an abrupt and catastrophic end. Creatures that had ruled the planet for more than 170 million years — from the gigantic sauropods that shook ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s just 64cm tall - but this newly discovered dinosaur is causing big excitement at the Natural History Museum. The Enigmacursor ...

The world's oldest known ceratopsian dinosaur was found in Morocco, including a fossilized femur. The discovery, published in Royal Society Open Science, confirms that ceratopsians existed as early as ...

A recent study suggests that dinosaurs likely originated from steamy equatorial regions like the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert, challenging previous beliefs that they emerged in ...

Scientists have made new discoveries about the origins of dinosaurs, suggesting they first emerged in dry, arid regions of Gondwana. Research published in Current Biology indicates that volcanic ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs could lie beneath the Amazon rainforest and the Sahara Desert. New research suggests that dinosaurs evolved in a much hotter and drier part of the world than ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL (University College London) ...

A team of Chinese paleontologists discovered a new dinosaur species, Archaeocursor asiaticus, in southwestern China, offering fresh insights into the early evolution of ornithischian dinosaurs in Asia ...

This story has been updated to reflect that the Antiquities and Monuments Office was told in March the sedimentary rock contained suspected fossils. An earlier version said the discovery was made that ...