The fossil belonged to a category of dinosaurs called microraptors, which were bird-like but not ancestors of modern-day ...

Flight was probably more widespread in dinosaurs than previously thought. A newly identified species sheds light on how some ...

“Terrible Lizards”—That’s the literal translation of the term Dinosauria, coined by Sir Richard Owen in the 19th century to describe the colossal bones early paleontologists were unearthing. For a ...

A newly discovered four-winged dinosaur from China suggests that dinosaur wings evolved twice independently in different ...

A newly identified 210-million-year-old dinosaur from Zimbabwe is helping scientists uncover a surprisingly distinct ...

The fossils, representing at least five individuals, were first uncovered by Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor of the Dinosaur Museum of Salas de los Infantes. “From the beginning, we knew these bones ...

A newly described feathered dinosaur found in northeastern China adds evidence supporting the theory that flight-related features evolved differently in various bird-like dinosaur groups. The findings ...

Dinosaur evolution is often told through giants, towering herbivores and predators that define museum halls. But a new discovery suggests that some of the most consequential evolutionary shifts may be ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study. The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie ...

Modeling dinosaur evolution points researchers to potential fossil discoveries closer to the equator. Just because we haven’t found dinosaur bones near the equator doesn’t mean they don’t exist — just ...