Modeling dinosaur evolution points researchers to potential fossil discoveries closer to the equator.

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a ...

"Until we dig up a pair of preserved dinosaurs that were committed to the fossil record mid-mating, we have to get a bit ...

By using dinosaurs' close reptilian cousins to close gaps in the fossil record, a new model points to an ancient supercontinent as the birthplace of the extinct creatures.

A joint dinosaur survey conducted by Okayama University ... is recognized as a significant locality for large hadrosaurid footprint fossils. As a result, the team discovered new trackways ...

But the origin of dinosaurs - precisely when and where they first appeared - remains a bit of a puzzle. Researchers ... including large crocodile relatives - both terrestrial and semi-aquatic ...

Zhang told LiveScience that the large dinosaur was probably a herbivore, and can be distinguished from its sister taxon—Yunnanosaurus—by its larger nostrils. The animal’s fossilized skull ...

The fossil record has such large gaps that it can’t be taken at face value,” explains ... the researchers considered silesaurids (early dinosaur relatives) as primitive ornithischian dinosaurs. This ...