Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

For a long time, paleontologists thought that the famous, long-extinct apex predator, the Tyrannosaurus rex, may have chased its prey at high speeds. Children’s books and movies often showed the ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

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A bird feather found in fossilized dinosaur poop is the best-preserved feather ever recovered by paleontologists from ...

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs. In North America, the superpredator Tyrannosaurus rex stalked its favorite ...

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries.

Dinosaurs have always been around in the human imagination. Whether it is through blockbusters like Jurassic Park or contemporary attempts at de-extincting animals like Woolly Mammoths, Dodos, and ...

Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians : a historical perspective : introduction / Richard T.J. Moody ... [et al.] -- The roles played by museums, collections and collectors in the early history of ...