A newly discovered, carnivorous lizard ostensibly represents what most casual onlookers would perhaps perceive to be a ...

The origin of dinosaurs may lie in the equatorial regions of South America and Africa, according to a recent study. This research, conducted by scientists from University College London, offers a new ...

A Montana fossil reveals that Nanotyrannus, once thought to be a young T. rex, was actually a full-grown predator and it's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos ...

A dinosaur fossil discovery by a researcher from The University of Texas at El Paso may expand the known range of a species ...

“The fossil, part of the legendary ‘Dueling Dinosaurs’ specimen unearthed in Montana, contains two dinosaurs locked in prehistoric combat: a Triceratops and a small-bodied tyrannosaur. That ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL (University College London) ...

German scientists think they've cracked the case on the origins of the giant asteroid that all but wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Now, a team of geoscientists from the University of ...

The world changed forever 66 million years ago. The IMPACT caused the Earth to nearly melt, destroyed almost every living thing, burned everything that grows, ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

The Chicxulub Crater is located off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and is believed to be caused by an asteroid 66 million years ago that measured six miles wide. The impact was catastrophic for life ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a rare ...