Two hundred years ago, an English geologist named William Buckland found a fossil unlike anything he’d ever seen. He called it "Megalosaurus" and thought it belonged to a large lizard. Little did he ...

When you think of dinosaurs, your first thoughts may include some of the more notorious species. In fact, of the more than 700 dinosaurs scientists have discovered, most people think of the larger ...

Though the dinosaurs were all killed by a meteor, not all were created equal in life. This species in particular was adept at survival in a way others weren't.

Scientists are studying two dinosaurs found buried together in prehistoric battle. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is preparing to study a fossil it has held for years — a pair of ...

Dinosaurs were once assumed to have been ectothermic, or cold-blooded, an idea that makes sense given that they were reptiles. While scientists had previously discovered evidence of dinosaur species ...

A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the ...

(CNN) — Prehistoric humans in Brazil carved drawings in the rock next to dinosaur footprints, suggesting that they may have found them meaningful or interesting, a new study has found. The rock ...

Missouri’s official state dinosaur: “Parrosaurus missouriensis.” (Image courtesy: Shutterstock) JOPLIN, Mo. — Like most states in the U.S., Missouri has a complicated geological past. Several times ...

It is one arguably one of the most pivotal stages in our history. But what really happened around the time when an asteroid smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists may finally have the ...

Paleontologists have long wrestled with the challenge of identifying the genders of dinosaurs from the fossils they leave ...