Paleontologist Riley Black points out in her new book that the story of the dinosaurs is not prehistory, but an elegant ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how ...

This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea. The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the ...

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how dinosaurs spread across the globe. When you purchase through links on our ...

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

Extremely rare” discovery of this newly identified armor-plated carnivorous reptile strengthens our understanding of the link ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

Dinosaur tracks were uncovered after flooding in the Big Sandy Creek neighborhood on July 5. (Courtesy of Travis County) Several massive, three-toed footprints etched in limestone were discovered near ...