Like their birdie descendants, some types of dinosaurs had beaks — but what good were they? X-ray fossil scans and computer modeling suggest that those beaks stabilized the Cretaceous creatures' ...

A team of paleontologists has identified several new types of dinosaurs from fossil evidence discovered in eastern Idaho, demonstrating the presence of a much more diverse group of theropods in the ...

Dinosaurs lived 252 to 66 million years ago, during the Mesozoic Era. Our world today looks very different. In the same way that modern animals look distinct from each other, so did dinosaurs. For ...

Tens of millions of years ago, dinosaurs liked to build nests to keep their eggs warm, just like reptiles and birds today. Now we know a little bit more about how and where the nests were built. A new ...

When you think of dinosaurs, your first thoughts may include some of the more notorious species. In fact, of the more than 700 dinosaurs scientists have discovered, most people think of the larger ...

A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the ...

Take a journey back more than 200 million years when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Walking With Dinosaurs—The Live Experience will hit Chicago this month on its North American tour. “The adults love it ...

Scientists are studying two dinosaurs found buried together in prehistoric battle. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is preparing to study a fossil it has held for years — a pair of ...

The idea of isolated communities of dinosaurs surviving the catastrophic extinction event 65 million years ago has stimulated a great deal of literary and cinematic drama. Today the fiction seems just ...

Life along the edge of the Western Interior Seaway was dynamic and diverse100 million years ago. Seasonal floods shaped sprawling lowlands while dense forests pressed against winding muddy channels in ...