A newly discovered dinosaur species unearthed in the Neuquén Province of Argentina has become the oldest known member of the rebbachisaurid family, offering key insights into the evolution of ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in Australia has reshaped scientists’ understanding of the Cretaceous predator hierarchy, revealing a prehistoric ecosystem unlike any seen before. Newly unearthed ...

The world's most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realized. Research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ...

Although incomplete, the ilium is plesiomorphic relative to alvarezsaurids in being asymmetric with a larger antiliac blade and having a pubic peduncle that is anteroposteriorly wider than the ischial ...

Learn about the rise, then fall, then rise again of dinosaur enthusiasm Darren Naish and Paul M. Barrett An illustration of a plate-backed herbivore Stegosaurus and ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million years ago seemed to erase evidence of dinosaurs in the region, scientists have ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

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A team of tracking specialists investigating the Western Cape coast of South Africa has identified more than two dozen fossilized dinosaur footprints. The research group initially visited the coastal ...

The following is an edited extract from The Story of Birds: A New History From Their Dinosaur Origins To the Present I will never forget my first dinosaur wing. I was a college student, on my first ...