Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur — one that was dog-sized and roamed what is now the United States around ...

A team of paleontologists and researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has discovered what may be the ...

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from ...

The dinosaur, discovered in China’s Liaoning province, lived about 125 million years ago. Some of its tail feathers were nearly a foot long – the longest ever seen on a flying dinosaur ...

Both pterosaurs and dinosaurs are distinct groups that shared a common ancestor, and so to call a pterosaur a dinosaur is to ignore this major divergence in the evolution of both groups.

Pterosaurs—fuzzy, flying reptiles that were related to dinosaurs—reigned over the skies more than 50 million years before Archaeopteryx, so it’s not as if Earth weren’t already full of ...

Scientists have unearthed in the badlands of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park the fossilized neck bone of a young ...

Flying was not possible for these dinosaurs since their arms were too small, and bodies too large. Mating and regulating ...

Rare fossil of flying dinosaur reveals 76-million-year-old crocodile-like bite. Scientists said the young pterosaur would have had a wingspan of more than 6 feet . Julia Musto. in New York.

Scans of the most well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric flying reptile with intact feathers have revealed how the first birds managed to fly while their non-bird dinosaur cousins could not.. The ...

Fossils reveal that bird-like dinosaurs were flying around more than 150 million years ago in the Jurassic Period.. The ability to fly evolved in the branch of dinosaurs that gave rise to birds, as ...

Archaeopteryx represents a pivotal point in the grand evolutionary journey linking dinosaurs to their avian descendants.But paleontologists still have questions about the Jurassic era animal’s ...