An amber-encased fossil seemed to be a hummingbird-size dinosaur. Now it’s been reclassified as a big-eyed lizard. Some 99 million years ago in what's now Myanmar, tree resin oozes over and entombs ...

The jury's still out until another specimen of the species gets analyzed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A fossil attributed to ...

Yes and no: It depends on how you classify animals. There are two main classification systems – the Linnaean system which groups organisms by characteristics and the phylogenetics system, which ...

The fact that dinosaurs had feathers is starting to become common knowledge, but what's not commonly known is what those ...

Dinosaurs have been prominent in popular culture for decades, meaning species such as the T-Rex and Velociraptor have become almost universally recognized. Another type, Therizinosaurus, may have been ...

A small skull found inside a piece of 99-million-year-old amber had scientists believing in 2020 that they had discovered the smallest dinosaur to date. But new research has concluded the fossil ...

Aug. 3 (UPI) --New research suggests an ancient skull found inside 99-million-year-old amber belonged to a lizard, not the "world's smallest dinosaur," as scientists claimed earlier this year. Lizards ...

Mysterious night lizards survived the giant asteroid strike that ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, and they still live there today, a new study finds. Thanks to a new evolutionary ...

BOSTON — A "swift-footed lizard" that lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts has been named the state's official dinosaur under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Charlie ...

Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were: The ...

This species belongs to one of the most ancient branches of the shark lineage. It dates back around 80 million years, making ...