Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

The earliest dinosaurs had rapid growth rates, but so did many of the other animals living alongside them, according to a study published in PLOS ONE by Kristina Curry Rogers of Macalester College, ...

Two elephant-sized South American sauropods were unusually well built for standing on their hind legs. Digital tests showed that their robust femurs handled the enormous forces better than those of ...

What starts as a journey through the fossil record quickly becomes a disturbing look at some of the most horrifying deaths ever preserved in prehistoric history. Across millions of years, rare fossil ...

Nowadays, dinosaurs are widely portrayed as animated, fictional characters in books and movies! In reality, these reptiles appeared on Earth between 230–245 million years ago, depending on which ...

Learn about the rise, then fall, then rise again of dinosaur enthusiasm Darren Naish and Paul M. Barrett An illustration of a plate-backed herbivore Stegosaurus and ...

Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal even comes close. Now, a new ...

This article was originally published by Quanta Magazine. When the paleontologist Michael D’Emic cut into the bones of Majungasaurus, a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Madagascar ...

Those storms swept dinosaur carcasses, crocodiles, plants and river mud onto a tidal flat, where the tides and a film of ...

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 ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth's balance shifted in a single strike. The asteroid impact set off firestorms, blocked out sunlight, and left food chains in collapse. Dinosaurs and countless other ...