The first vertebrates took to the skies sometime during the Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. They weren’t birds, ...

Scientists once thought of dinosaurs as sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Then research suggested that some could control their body temperature, but when and how that shift came about remained a ...

In northeast China, there's a place that's offered up a treasure trove of exquisite dinosaur fossils over the years. The prevailing theory says they were preserved suddenly by volcanic activity. But ...

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 ...

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Allosaurus Riley Black - Science Correspondent Dinosaurs thrived on our ...

Scientists are studying two dinosaurs found buried together in prehistoric battle. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is preparing to study a fossil it has held for years — a pair of ...

A teacher made a rare find Monday when she uncovered a mystery fossil that appears to be older than the first dinosaur to walk the planet. Lisa Cormier, a teacher on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, was ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It was thought to be caused by a volcanic eruption. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be. In ...