A 230 million-year-old, never-before-seen raptor unearthed in the U.S. is the oldest dinosaur ever discovered in North America — and one of the earliest to ever emerge on our planet. The mini ...

For decades, paleontologists have been debating how and when the era of dinosaurs began, armed mostly with fragmented fossil records and theories. The widely accepted belief is that dinosaurs first ...

Because the quarry is located in an area famed among paleontologists as a hotbed for evidence of dinosaur activity, the experts were called in. Not long after, it was determined that those strange ...

What are the best dinosaur games on PC? Ever since we watched Jurassic Park as kids we’ve wondered what it would be like to co-habit with the most terrifying of Earth’s creatures. Whether you ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted. Massive ...

Dinosaurs have been breaking the minds of paleontologists and curious minds worldwide for decades. What did they eat, did they live in groups, were all of them cold-blooded like reptiles? And over the ...

Scientists have long debated if the impact or the volcanic supereruption was behind the extinction of 75% of all species living at the time, including non-avian dinosaurs, or a combination of both.

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just ...

The impact and its aftermath ended the reign of the dinosaurs, wiping out a group of creatures that had ruled the planet for 135 million years. Well, almost. Ask just about any paleontologist ...

Deinonychus was a medium-sized theropod dinosaur, measuring about 3 meters long and weighing around 100 kilograms. It had a sleek, agile build with a long, stiff tail for balance. Its most ...