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If you've ever seen a cut-down tree, you've noticed the rings that mark each year of growth. But those rings don't just show the tree's age. They show how fast the tree grew. A new study took this ...

A discovery of dinosaur tracks on Australia’s southern coast — dating back to the Early Cretaceous when Australia was still connected to Antarctica — indicates that large theropod dinosaurs thrived in ...

Fossils of the T. rex, tyrant lizard and queen of the dinosaurs, are found exclusively in North America. Strangely, they have more in common with other large theropod dinosaurs in Asia than they do ...

(Reuters) - Fossils found in Argentina of a ferocious dinosaur with a huge head covered in bumps and crests reminiscent of a gargoyle are providing insight into the evolution of some of Earth's ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The dinosaur group called theropods included the largest land meat-eaters ever on Earth - up to the size of a school bus. But there also were theropods the size of a ...

Scans of fossilized feces have revealed what the early members of this iconic species ate to help them take over the world.

A study is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. The fossils represent the first record of ...

Learn more about the fossilized trackway, which provides important insights into the movement of massive dinosaurs.

WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an ...

Researchers think they understand how some dinosaurs grew so large. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Michael D'Emic, paleontologist at Adelphi University. If you've ever seen a cut-down tree, you've ...