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

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

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

Two shinbones provide the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs ("shark-toothed lizards") in Australia. A third shinbone ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

based on the locations of the currently oldest-known dinosaur fossils, the evolutionary relationships among these early forms and Earth's geography during the Triassic Period. This locale spans ...