A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the ...

Fossils of ceratopsian dinosaurs, the group containing Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs, have been vanishingly rare in Europe while being widespread across Asia and North America, until now. New ...

Dinosaurs were once assumed to have been ectothermic, or cold-blooded, an idea that makes sense given that they were reptiles. While scientists had previously discovered evidence of dinosaur species ...

Two hundred years ago, an English geologist named William Buckland found a fossil unlike anything he’d ever seen. He called it "Megalosaurus" and thought it belonged to a large lizard. Little did he ...

Dinosaurs have captivated the imaginations of both children and adults for generations. For many Lycoming College students, that wonder and curiosity is reignited when they enroll in Lycoming ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species that lived in what is now Utah around 99 million years ago and appears to have been adapted to underground living. The previously unknown species ...

Scientists are studying two dinosaurs found buried together in prehistoric battle. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is preparing to study a fossil it has held for years — a pair of ...