Dinosaur ‘drumsticks’ helped penguins waddle, turkeys trot millions of years later - Paleontologists compared the bones and ...

The Yixian Formation in northeastern China is a regular treasure trove for paleontologists with its well-preserved fossils.

Gizmodo spoke with David Hone, author of a new book exploring how paleontologists study dinosaurs—and why it’s time to ...

For one thing, feathers, fur and everything else would almost certainly have been burned in a pyroclastic flow. For another, the dinosaurs and other animals are not in pugilistic positions ...

Hold onto your bones! From cutting-edge research to life-sized animatronics, "Dino Safari" at the Cox Science Center and ...

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast ...

Coprolites—fossilized feces—from the Jurassic hold traces of past meals. These deposits left by a herbivorous dinosaur ...

The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology team at a site where many three-dimensional dinosaur fossils have been ...

Feathers and other intact ... by contrast, have their tails and arms comfortably tucked and nestled around their bodies. Some of these dinosaurs and mammals, the study notes, look like they ...

Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.

A groundbreaking discovery is shedding light on how modern birds developed their unique brains and intelligence. Researchers ...