New research confirms that Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex, but a predatory species native to the Late Cretaceous ...

A fossil trackway in China reveals a dinosaur that sprinted like a pro athlete—120 million years before bikes existed.

Most of the footprints are elongated and made by bipeds. The best-preserved ones bear traces of at least four toes.

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock ...

Jane, the world-famous tyrannosaur fossil at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, may not be a Tyrannosaurus rex after all. A new study published in Nature by Lindsay Zanno of the North Carolina ...

Researchers now identify the "dueling dinosaur" tyrannosaur as an adult Nanotyrannus, not T. rex. "This fossil...flips decades of T. rex research on its head," says Lindsay Zanno. Study reveals ...

The most ferocious predator of the ancient world had a smaller, lightweight cousin: a new species of tyrannosaur uncovered in a Raleigh laboratory. For years, paleontologists at the NC Museum of ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to ...

Paleontologists at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered a new species of dinosaur called nanotyrannus lancensis. The discovery came after studying a fossil called "Dueling ...

A new specimen of one of the most controversial species of dinosaur has the potential to overturn decades of research on the T rex. Known as the duelling dinosaurs, this fossil preserves an ...

The 67 million-year-old fossils were found in Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Fossils paleontologists initially thought belonged to a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a new species of ...

A dinosaur fossil thought to be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex is in fact a fully grown carnivore of a different species, according to researchers who believe they have finally settled a long-running ...