Rather than flying like a modern bird, Jian likely traveled by gliding, more like a flying squirrel.

A new fossil discovery from northwestern China suggests a feathered, four-winged dinosaur may have preyed on ancient birds about 120 million years ago. The species, Jian changmaensis, a microraptor ...

Cryolophosaurus is one of the most fascinating dinosaur discoveries ever made, not just because of its size, but because of where it was found. This roughly 20 to 23-foot-long carnivorous dinosaur ...

Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety of powerful predators. While dinosaurs often get most of the attention when ...

Named the “king of the tyrant lizards,” T. rex was built to rule. Find out how these dinosaurs lived, what made them so vicious, and what we’re still learning about them today.

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once ...