Flying reptiles of the prehistoric skies, pterosaurs, are long extinct but continue to reveal the secrets of evolution. These ...

China is a Jurassic treasure trove going big with fossil discoveries. But will dinosaurs have the same pulling power as ...

Well, maybe not exactly that, but Arizona’s got the next best thing: a prehistoric playground that’ll make your inner child ...

The specimen is especially big and superlatively complete, and could clue researchers into the ancient beast's growth rate ...

The vast numbers of new dinosaurs that have been documented since the 1960s are equally exciting. New dinosaurs have of ...

The collection of a local retired quarryman named Dave Brockhurst was also key to this discovery. Brockhurst has spent the ...

The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when they ... and linking them to fossilized skeletons and footprints found at the ...

“We gathered around 80 fossil burrows, most of which contained skulls and bones of the ancient amphibians.” “These bones contained clues to the animals’ lifestyles. No complete skeletons have been ...

While scientists have linked dinosaurs to birds ... examining the shapes of leg bones in a penguin, an ostrich, an owl, and a ...

“Under the meat of a drumstick, you’ll find two bones — the ... Cretaceous period dinosaur Ichthyornis dispar . It lived nearly 100 million years ago in North America (Michael Hanson/Yale ...

While scientists have linked dinosaurs to birds through feathers ... “Under the meat of a drumstick, you’ll find two bones — the tibia, which is long and thick, and the fibula, which is ...

These features enable the knee bones to maintain smooth contact, even when the joint twists by more than 100 degrees. Many other well-known dinosaurs, like the Tyrannosaurus rex, had straightened ...