Feathers may define birds today, but their story began millions of years ago in creatures that looked very different from ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

A palaeontologist’s call-out for rocks bearing dinosaur footprints around an Australian town has borne fruit, including a ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a chilly January afternoon, Susannah Maidment stands on the shore of a London lake, staring down a pack of dinosaurs.

Another angle to consider is how paleontologists formulate their ideas about dinosaur behavior in the first place. For example, although we have numerous examples of several individuals of a ...

How do scientists study the behaviour of dinosaurs, who died 65 million years ago? After all, dinosaur fossils are rare enough as it is, and most are fragments and difficult to work with.