Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered by a group of Chinese paleontologists at Yunnan University. It is an ...

Dinosaur remains can preserve their original organic molecules—settling a 30-year-old scientific debate about whether such ...

So, how did avian dinosaurs survive when all others died? Avian Dinosaurs Before the KT Extinction Event Pterodactyls and other pterosaurs are not avian dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles that ...

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

We actually have found examples of creatures like turtles and prehistoric sharks mid-copulation, but never for non-avian dinosaurs, says Black. Instead, one genre of evidence we can look to is ...

It’s the oldest known fossil tied to a modern bird group that survived the asteroid strike that wiped out all the non-avian dinosaurs. Not long after its discovery in the 1860s, the species was ...

challenging the widely held idea that differences in metabolism explain why birds fared so much better than non-avian dinosaurs. “This is really exciting for us as paleontologists,” study coauthor and ...

This impact triggered a chain reaction of destructive events, including a rapid climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and, in total, about 75% of species ...