Bicharracosaurus dionidei, a newly discovered long-necked dinosaur species, is reshaping how scientists understand the ...

New research suggests dinosaurs originated between 250 and 240 million years ago, a full 10 million years before the oldest ...

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and ...

In the world of paleontology, the biggest bones usually grab the loudest headlines. But a tiny set of fossils unearthed in northern Spain is proving that the smallest players often hide the biggest ...

New research indicates dinosaurs may have originated between 250 and 240 million years ago—around 10 million years earlier than the oldest confirmed fossils suggest. This shift moves their emergence ...

An international team of scientists has created the largest and most detailed bird family tree ever, spanning 93 million years and representing 92% of bird families species, using cutting-edge ...

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs.

Chris Doughty, an associate professor in NAU's informatics department, was writing a paper for a conference and had the idea to test a theory about sauropods, forests and fruit. Doughty created a ...

The study of palaeontology has long provided a window into the dynamic evolutionary history of dinosaurs and their avian descendants. Recent research has uncovered intricate details regarding the ...

Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs, ...

Where are all the east coast dinosaurs? Where are all the east coast dinosaurs? Why don’t we find famous species like Triceratops in Central Park? Turns out, evolution and geology came together to ...