The first dinosaurs were go-getters, Qvarnström said, eating whatever they could — including insects, fish and plants. When climate conditions changed, they were quick to adapt. Plant-eating ...

Kids of all ages (and I include adults here) are fascinated by dinosaurs that break records for the biggest, the longest, the ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

During the period, fish and sharks would eat them despite the fact they were ... of the Cretaceous sea - the sea during which the dinosaurs lived.” The Museum of East Zealand only sent word ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living ...

At first, paleontologists thought only theropod dinosaurs had feathers. However, scientists have found traces of downy feathers on fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur, suggesting that feathers may ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils ...

"At first glance, the darker forest understory caused by dinosaur extinctions may seem unimportant, but it could have directly led to the evolution of our fruit-eating primate ancestors," Doughty ...

They include the world's oldest megaraptor and the first known example of a carcharodontosaurus - a huge theropod dinosaur - in Australia. Scientists say it shows that meat-eating dinosaurs ...