Fluff and fuzz helped the creatures keep warm, blend in and communicate Riley Black Science Correspondent The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades ...

Dinosaurs are one of the most successful groups of animals to have roamed the planet. For over 170 million years they dominated the land, from small creatures just a few feet long to some of the ...

It’s an unlikely relationship, but the humble pigeon is a descendant of the group of dinosaurs that also includes the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our ...

The bull gator lay in the sand under the oak trees. A few days earlier he had been hauled out of a murky lake in central Florida. Researchers instantly named him Mr. Big. He was sofa-size, with ...

Troodon formosus was a small coelurosaurian dinosaur—a member of the same clade (evolutionary group) to which modern birds belong. Fossilized remains have been discovered of nesting parents and ...

Andy has travelled back in time over 250 million years to the time off the dinosaur! Play Andy's Dinosaur Adventure game to find dinosaurs, complete challenges and collect all the badges.

Despite having roamed the planet millions of years ago, thanks to advances in technology, dinosaurs aren’t as inscrutable today as they once were. And over the past decades, in addition to studying ...

Pleurocoelus was chosen as Texas’ official state dinosaur in 1997. However, in 2007, paleontologists re-identified ...

Learning more about emus is all well and good, but van Bijlert hopes that the research can also inform scientists’ understanding of birds’ long-lost ancestors, dinosaurs. He suspects that in ...

Wandering the pine rainforests and palmetto-choked riverbanks, they set about recording the number of dinosaur species they observe. They have all sorts of traits to consider when sorting their ...

A study reveals the ability to walk efficiently on the ground played a crucial role in determining how large these flying animals could grow.