Paleontologists and a former quarry worker have discovered evidence of 135-million-year-old tyrannosaurs on the southeastern English coast for the first time. Retired quarryman Dave Brockhurst, who ...

The cast of the skull of Nigersaurus. The fossil skull of Nigersaurus was one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans. Photograph by Ira Block, Nat Geo Image ...

Fossils often serve as a time capsule, aiding researchers in understanding past events. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers has used a ...

So Dilophosaurus is no longer believed to have been venomous; but what about other dinosaurs?  In 2009, a small, feathered ...

Dinosaurs may have vanished millions of years ago, but their teeth still carry a message from Earth’s distant past. A team of scientists from the Universities of Göttingen, Mainz, and Bochum has shown ...

A discovery of more than a thousand dinosaur teeth, by a team of researchers from the University of Portsmouth, proves beyond reasonable doubt that Spinosaurus, the giant predator made famous by the ...

Late in the Cretaceous Period, when tyrannosaurs and their kin were the ruling predators on land, large swimming reptiles ruled the seas. Among them were the plesiosaurs and the mosasaurs. The suffix ...

Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — A group of 13 dinosaurs that died in ...

Update 8-3-2020, 3:45 pm EST: On July 22, 2020, the journal Nature retracted the study that this article describes. Based on the recent discovery of a similar fossil, a different team of researchers ...