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

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

However, scientists have found traces of downy feathers on fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur, suggesting that feathers may have been more common in dinosaurs than we thought. Some dinosaurs may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Despite decades of digging and discovery, paleontologists still have not found fossil evidence of some of the planet’s earliest dinosaurs. Most of the specimens we have found like the T.rex all ...

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.

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.