The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly opened Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi are four massive ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? Maybe you think of four-legged herbivores like Apatosaurus or Triceratops. Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or ...

A remarkable fossil unearthed in Africa is rewriting the story of dinosaur origins. The 225-million-year-old leg bone, ...

The idea of bringing dinosaurs back raises questions far beyond science fiction. This analysis examines whether these extinct ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

When did these blockhead dinosaurs get their domes? A new fossil is “the specimen we have all been waiting for.” In this artist's reconstruction, two pachycephalosaurs from the new species Zavacephale ...

Before the mid-1960s, it was widely believed that all dinosaurs were cold-blooded, slow-moving animals. But in the summer of 1964, a team of paleontologists led by John Ostrom discovered Deinonychus, ...

Michigan's Dinosaur Gardens, which is celebrating 90 years this summer, is has been named one of USA TODAY'S 10BEST roadside attractions in its Readers' Choice Awards. "Join us for a thrilling ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...