The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Fossils found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe represent a completely new dinosaur species. This remarkable find, named Musankwa sanyatiensis, marks only the fourth dinosaur species named ...

The finding in Stelvio National Park, near the Swiss border, that was unveiled Tuesday consists of thousands of fossilized ...

For more than two centuries, scientists have argued over where dinosaurs came from and how a scattered set of bones turned ...

A golden era in dinosaur science is driving this fascination with dinosaurs. Around 1,400 dinosaur species are now known from more than 90 countries, with the rate of discovery accelerating in the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos ...

A fossil site of "unique importance" has shed light on a lost prehistoric ecosystem where early dinosaurs roamed more than 200 million years ago. For a study published in the Proceedings of the ...

In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ago. The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, ...

An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has analyzed fossilized dinosaur droppings—known as coprolites—to uncover details about the diets and ecological roles of dinosaurs 200 ...

A duo of sauropodomorphs; one munching on the newly evolved plants in a wet Early Jurassic environment whilst the other is looking up as if there was something hiding in the vegetation. Illustration: ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.