For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...
Dr. David Hone, a dinosaur expert, writes about dinosaur behavior, including grooming, feeding, fighting, mating, and group ...
The new research suggests that this dinosaur's armor was adapted for fighting between members of Borealopelta markmitchelli.
The Psittacosaurus dinosaur fossils discovered in the Yixian Formation stood out for their remarkable state of preservation.
Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of trace fossil and a window into the lives of dinosaurs. They formed in the same way our footprints do when walking on soft ground like mud.
The world's first known non-avian feathered dinosaurs showed up—some so intact that scientists worked out the feathers' ...
But despite their long evolutionary history, the origin of dinosaurs remains shrouded in mystery. When did dinosaurs evolve, and what did the first ones look like? The earliest definitive dinosaur is ...
In an exciting discovery that offers fresh insights into the origins of dinosaurs, scientists have ... The species name paraisensis honours Paraiso do Sul, the town near the fossil site.
In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ...
But some of the birds that lived in dinosaur times actually had teeth. Others did not. After the asteroid struck Earth long ago, all birds with teeth went extinct. But many of the toothless ones ...
How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs? – Kinjal, age 11, Delhi, India When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted from outer space and ...