A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with backward-curving fangs that would have hooked into flesh to rip it open, the ...

About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell. We know this because they left some of the most incredibly ...

Footage shows shows the shoebill's precision strike to seemingly control the outcome. But is it real?

Driving from Utah to Colorado reveals a long list of attractions such as fossil-rich parks, museums and life-size dinosaurs.

A fossil of Mirasaura grauvogeli that shows its bird-like skull and crest along its back. Credit: Stephan Spiekman Paleontologists have identified an ancient reptile with a towering crest made not of ...

Studying bromalites helped paleontologists piece together how the reptiles came to rule a part of the prehistoric world. Coprolites of herbivorous dinosaurs that were found to contain numerous plant ...

Large animals face a constant battle against physics: they generate a lot of body heat that can be difficult to dump. For a dinosaur with a head as large and heavily insulated by bone and keratin as ...

The skull of Triceratops looks almost exaggerated, as if someone enlarged the front half without adjusting the rest. Paleontologists have long studied its horns and frill, yet the cavernous nasal ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? Maybe you think of four-legged herbivores like Apatosaurus or Triceratops. Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or ...

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives ...