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 ...

Dinosaurs were once assumed to have been ectothermic, or cold-blooded, an idea that makes sense given that they were reptiles. While scientists had previously discovered evidence of dinosaur species ...

Two hundred years ago, an English geologist named William Buckland found a fossil unlike anything he’d ever seen. He called it "Megalosaurus" and thought it belonged to a large lizard. Little did he ...

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 ...

A new species of dinosaur has been identified in England. The bones of Comptonatus chasei, a herbivore that lived 125 million years ago during the Cretaceous period, were first found on the Isle of ...

Missouri’s official state dinosaur: “Parrosaurus missouriensis.” (Image courtesy: Shutterstock) JOPLIN, Mo. — Like most states in the U.S., Missouri has a complicated geological past. Several times ...

Modern birds, including chickens, are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, having evolved from a group of theropod dinosaurs. Fossil and molecular evidence, such as feathered dinosaur remains ...

A reanalysis by UC Davis paleontologists challenges the conclusions of a study published last year that assessed metabolic rates of dinosaurs based on traces of biomolecules from fossils. Monitor ...

Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from ...

Scientists were able to date the tracks to the middle of the Jurassic Period, around 166 million years ago. A team of more than 100 scientists, volunteers and students conducted a week-long dig in ...