The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

"Their bodies were shaped for speed and agility, and their teeth were adapted for specific diets," Heath said of the early dinosaurs. For example, Herrerasaurus was a 20-foot (6-meter) long ...

A University of Queensland researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ...

Biologists previously believed modern birds had evolved 20 million years later than the new evidence suggests.

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES KUNMING — Chinese scientists have identified a new species of Early Jurassic sauropod dinosaur, named Xingxiulong yueorum, based on a fossilized skeleton discovered ...

because many genealogical analyses instead identify them as non-bird ‘raptor’ dinosaurs in the Velociraptor zone of the evolutionary family tree 7. Nevertheless, they too were primitive ...

In the shadow of the appropriately named Fossil Ridge Intermediate School, there is a race against time to uncover prehistoric treasures before they're lost to urban development.