Fluff and fuzz helped the creatures keep warm, blend in and communicate Riley Black Science Correspondent The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades ...

Dinosaurs were exceptional creatures that pushed the limits of evolution. These beautiful creatures occurred in various ...

It is one of the greatest puzzles in paleontology. For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs dominated Earth. They were so successful that other animal groups -- mammals included -- had little ...

Despite having roamed the planet millions of years ago, thanks to advances in technology, dinosaurs aren’t as inscrutable today as they once were. And over the past decades, in addition to studying ...

The bull gator lay in the sand under the oak trees. A few days earlier he had been hauled out of a murky lake in central Florida. Researchers instantly named him Mr. Big. He was sofa-size, with ...

Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx, known as the Thermopolis specimen, has bones that are preserved in three ...

In 1993, Steven Spielberg's film Jurassic Park defined dinosaurs for an entire generation. It has been credited with inspiring a new era of palaeontology research. But how much science was built ...

Dinosaurs have thrown into question everything we thought we knew about the evolution of body size. In biology, Bergmann's ...

Dinosaurs are one of the most successful groups of animals to have roamed the planet. For over 170 million years they dominated the land, from small creatures just a few feet long to some of the ...

Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...

Learning more about emus is all well and good, but van Bijlert hopes that the research can also inform scientists’ understanding of birds’ long-lost ancestors, dinosaurs. He suspects that in ...