Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new prehistoric species in Morocco — a bizarre-looking marine lizard considerably larger than a great white shark, which, they say, dominated the seas while ...

Science fiction makes it seem like dinosaurs were huge reptiles. But between smaller sizes, feathers, and other factors, they ...

A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with backward-curving fangs that would have hooked into flesh to rip it open, the ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

The 'terrible lizards' can reign supreme in the movies, but there's something seriously wrong about the way we've hyped up their history. By Riley Black Published Oct 3, 2023 1:00 PM EDT Get the ...

This is an artist’s rendering of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis, which lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts. The dinosaur, whose name means “swift-footed lizard of Holyoke,” ...

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 ...

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost certainly didn't roar. You might be surprised to hear that some scientists ...

You may not know this, but the warm and/or cold nature of dinosaurs is ... hotly contested. A study last year put dinosaurs solidly in between cold-blooded reptiles and warm-blooded modern mammals, ...

After speaking with paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, I can honestly say — I didn't know as much as I thought! I mean, did you know dinosaurs likely didn't roar or that they still have living ...