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Dinosaurs were the most fascinating creatures that once ruled the world for more than 150 million years. The peculiar fossils serve as a window into the past, revealing the diverse dinosaur species that inhabited the planet's...

About 60 million years ago, the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction occurred, wiping away almost a third of all existing animals, including dinosaurs, from planet Earth. In recent years, scientists have been toying...

Dozens of footprints from ancient sauropods, a kind of creature that scientists believe may have been the largest dinosaur ever, have been discovered in Scotland...

Big Bend National Park isn’t just a place of stunning landscape beauty—the Texan park is also paleontological paradise. To tell the story of the area’s rich fossil history, Texan architecture studio Lake | Flato designed...

Fossils in Africa from the Late Cretaceous time period - around 100 to 66 million years ago - are rare. Scientists have been largely kept in the dark about the course of dinosaur evolution on the continent, but a new dinosaur...

Scientists have found the first solid evidence that prehistoric ticks consumed dinosaur blood. The discovery of a 99-million year old piece of amber in Myanmar offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Cretaceous animals, large...

Dinosaurs no longer roam the planet - unless you count birds. Recent discoveries have revealed many dinosaurs once had feathers, and birds are actually dinosaurs that have evolved over time. But we don't really know how feathers...

Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains of what may have been the largest predator to ever hunt on the African savanna. Found in Lesotho, the recently revealed fossilized footprints of a previously unknown "mega-carnivore"...

A team of researchers just discovered the world's largest dinosaur footprint in an area they're calling "Australia's Jurassic Park." The massive sauropod footprint was discovered near James Price Point in Western Australia,...

A small red-crested dinosaur from the Late Jurassic era could help us unlock the origins of flight, now that we have a better idea of what it looked like...

Later this month, scientists will drill deep into the seafloor off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico in an effort to learn more about the beginning of the end for dinosaurs...

The Clifftops Cove Holiday Park will occupy the of a former caravan park on the Jurassic Coast, on the Isle of Portland. Set into a natural step in the terrain and covered in grass, the houses will be built using pre-patinated...

When actor Nicolas Cage bought a 70 million year old Tyrannosaurus bataar skull at auction for $276,000 in 2007, he had no way of knowing that it had actually been smuggled illegally into the United States...

When actor Nicolas Cage bought a 70 million year old Tyrannosaurus bataar skull at auction for $276,000 in 2007, he had no way of knowing that it had actually been smuggled illegally into the United States...

Although the global climate of the Mesozoic Era was considerably warmer and wetter than it is today, the planet still maintained a diversity of biomes...