Despite the common belief that reptiles such as crocodiles and alligators are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds gained flight. Hidden within the wrist of a small, feathered dinosaur lies a ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ostriches that walk upright on two hind legs, or predators like eagles and hawks ...

Ni Minjing, director of the Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, agrees: "Dinosaurs are actually between reptiles like ...

It was one of the last dinosaurs to roam the Earth, and it could be yours for £3m. Spike the Caenagnathid lay undiscovered ...

Modern science reveals dinosaurs were more intelligent than previously thought, with Troodon formosus standing out as an ...

Argentine paleontologists found a 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg in Río Negro. This rare find is believed to belong to a ...

Over a video call from a dig site near Oxford, England, Peter Falkingham points his phone down to show a fossilized footprint of what was probably a large sauropod. Stepping inside the long-necked ...

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.