By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

The last several decades has seen advancements both in the technology used to bring dinosaurs and other extinct animals to ...

Picture this: the next time you see a sparrow hopping along a sidewalk or a hawk soaring across a blue sky, you’re witnessing a living dinosaur. It sounds almost impossible, like something out o ...

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

It’s an unlikely relationship, but the humble pigeon is a descendant of the group of dinosaurs that also includes the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard ...

If there is a common ancestor, it’s also possible that hollow bones were a relic from the ancestors of these dinosaurs, Windholz says. What may have been useful in saurischians, for example, may have ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Archaeopteryx represents a pivotal point in the grand evolutionary ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The American Naturalist Vol. 34, No. 406, Oct., 1900 Reconsideration of the Evidence for a Co... Reconsideration of the Evidence for a Common ...

Xu suggests that feather evolution may have gotten started in a common ancestor of pterodactyls and dinosaurs—nearly 240 million years ago, or some 95 million years before Archaeopteryx.

Most dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus rex ... Perhaps its unique feeding style led to it breaking this common rule. We are not upset at all about rule-breakers like the spoonbill.