An ancient leg bone uncovered in Africa might provide a step forward in understanding how dinosaurs and their close relatives ...

The Yixian formation, located in what is now Liaoning Province, situated on China’s North-East coast, is a palaeontologist’s paradise. First investigated by Japanese scientists in 1933, the site ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went ...

The types of animals we know today have several similarities with those that lived on Earth millions of years ago, but also important differences. Right now, it would be almost imp ...

Flight masters Flying reptiles may be hard to imagine, but pterosaurs were the masters of powered flight in their day. They first appear in the fossil record about 215 million years ago, and they ...

Dinosaurs Were Evolutionary Copycats of These Long-Lost Look-Alikes Before T. rex and ankylosaurus ruled the Earth, a host of similar Triassic reptiles reigned ...

Dig for fossils, check out "Jurassic Park"-inspired Jeeps, and see live reptiles during this special event Saturday, July 19, ...

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...

The newly-found fossils are 209 million years old and include pterosaurs, primitive frogs and lizard-like reptiles ...

As well as the dwarf dinosaurs, the Haţeg Basin was also home to crocodiles, giant pterosaurs (flying reptiles) and turtles — before dinosaurs went extinct 66 milion years ago. From Range et al ...

Dinosaurs took over planet amid cold that other reptiles couldn’t survive 200 million years ago, study finds. Some parts of the world froze regularly and dinosaurs there ‘did just fine ...

Flight masters Flying reptiles may be hard to imagine, but pterosaurs were the masters of powered flight in their day. They first appear in the fossil record about 215 million years ago, and they ...