In 1964, a paleontologist named John Ostrom unearthed some fascinating fossils from the mudstone of Montana. Its discovery set the stage for what’s known today as the Dinosaur Renaissance, a total ...

Paleontologist Robert Bakker’s exclamation to his colleague, Jim Kirkland, on the phone back in 1991 was quite literally about a big discovery. Digging in Gaston Quarry in Grand County, Utah, Kirkland ...

CHINA - Not all dinosaurs are known from bones; some mysterious species are identified only from their footprints. A research team has identified a series of five raptor footprints from approximately ...

The six-foot-tall raptors in the Jurassic Park movies were terrifying enough, but now scientists have described a giant new raptor species whose legs alone were that tall. Raptors were a diverse group ...

Hesperornithoides miessleri was a feathered dinosaur with many features we now associate with birds. Full life reconstruction by Gabriel Ugueto No one was expecting to find the little dinosaur. In ...