Back in 2015, experts recovered the fossilized remains from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China.

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Learn how the extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago caused seeds to grow larger, filling in an important piece ...

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 like Therizinosaurus, ...

Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

A U.K. fossil tour guide discovered a rare purple dinosaur footprint imprinted in clay on the coast of the Isle of Wight on ...

KUNMING: Chinese scientists have identified a new species of Early Jurassic sauropod dinosaur, named Xingxiulong yueorum, ...

This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...

The Triassic Period creature Nyasasaurus, considered either an early dinosaur or a close relative, is seen in this illustration released on January 23, 2025. Photo: Mark Witton/The Trustees of the ...