Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were: The smallest dinosaurs were the same size as hummingbirds at only 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, ...

Some 200 million years ago, a 12-ton dinosaur that was double the size of an African elephant stomped around South Africa. In ...

and dinosaurs were popular, says Darren Naish, Ph.D., who works as a palaeozoologist, studying animals like dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles. The idea that Africa was potentially home to ...

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by geologist and palaeontologist Gideon Mantell in England. Dinosaur bones ...

What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were: The smallest dinosaurs were the same size as hummingbirds at only 2 inches (5 centimeters ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying ...