Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Before there were birds pterosaurs ruled the skies, soaring above the dinosaurs below. But only recently has the secret of ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...

How and when did dinosaurs first emerge and spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago? That question has for decades been a source of debate among paleontologists faced with fragmented ...

How exactly these extinct creatures had sex has proved something of a mystery - but now an expert sheds light on this most prehistoric of intercourse.

A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs weren’t debating their identity ... Think 14.5 billion years for the universe, 4.5 billion for our planet’s origin, and nearly that for North America’s oldest surface rocks.

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon ...

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 ...

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 ...

A GIANT horned dinosaur species has been unearthed - despite the bones' destruction in World War Two. The groundbreaking discovery of the 10-metre-long skeleton was made after palaeontologists dug ...