Long before polar bears and penguins, Antarctica’s apex predator was a dinosaur with a flamboyant crest. Cryolophosaurus ...

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...

In the arid expanse of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, scientists have unearthed a rare dinosaur fossil that challenges what we ...

Smartest dinosaurs were not slow-witted. Discover the top 5 most intelligent dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era, ranked by ...

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...

Scientists may have solved one of paleontology's enduring mysteries - the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at the same time that dinosaurs dominated ...

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults ...

The marine reptile would have been about three metres long and would have eaten fish and squid, scientists say ...

The fossil was first discovered in 2001 and passed around between museums before experts were finally able to analyze it this year.

A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of ...

The petrified bones and shells of long-dead dinosaurs and sea creatures found in Swindon made a huge difference to our understanding of the ...