That may come as no surprise, given that birds are dinosaurs. But in terms of classification, this raises a question: Since dinosaurs are reptiles, does that mean that birds are reptiles, too?"I would ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Research suggests dinosaurs first appeared in the ancient Gondwana supercontinent, including areas that are now the Amazon ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

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 ...

The fossilised neck bone of a dinosaur that was bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago has been discovered by researchers. The bone, which belonged to a young flying reptile, was ...

However, this also demonstrates that the data for mammals cannot be directly used for assessing the feeding habits of prehistoric reptiles, such as dinosaurs. In addition to the chemical traces of ...

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

A new paper suggests that we may finally know where dinosaurs came from. Now, researchers just have to prove it.

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...