A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs ruled for around 165 million years, and by the Cretaceous they had evolved into forms so strange they barely fit the stereotypes - not just giant killers and horned tanks, but specialists ...
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but the dinosaurs and pseudosuchian archosaurs reached this shape ...
Some dinosaurs were scaly, some were covered in bony plates of armor, and others were even feathered. But now paleontologists have discovered a new species with a type of skin covering that's never ...
(Kelly Enright) While this automotive Triceratops—we think?—from Hanksville, Utah does win some bonus points for recycling, our first thought when opening the image was “Oh geez! Kill it with fire!” ...
With its bizarre 'punk rocker' spikes, this newly discovered dinosaur could have been equally at home in the 1970s as the Cretaceous era. Spicomellus is the world's oldest ankylosaur, having roamed ...
A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Archaeopteryx, including the oral papillae on the roof of its mouth, a bill-tip organ at the end of its ...
Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that appear to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or natural ...
The hills of Transylvania hold a story that feels almost impossible to fit into the palm of your hand. In a muddy streambed of the Hațeg Basin in western Romania, paleontologists have uncovered a ...
In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the BBC revived their landmark series Walking With Dinosaurs, while July saw the release of Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh film in the extinction-proof ...