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Illustrated scene of dinosaurs and asteroid.

Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs

Skeleton of the largest-known T. rex (foreground) and silhouette of the largest possible giant T. rex. Credit: Mark Witton.

Scientists assess how large dinosaurs could really get

An artist’s impression of the dinosaur. Image credit: John Sibbick

Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in...

Fona herzogae. Credit: Jorge Gonzales

Life underground suited newly discovered dinosaur fine

Lithouva - the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil accompanied with CT scan reconstruction. Bottom shows artist reconstruction. Photos by Fabiany Herrera, art by Pollyanna von Knorring.

Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may...

Reconstruction of Lokiceratops in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, as two Probrachylophosaurus move past in the background. Artwork by Fabrizio Lavezzi © Evolutionsmuseet, Knuthenborg

Newly discovered dinosaur boasts big, blade-like horns

Musankwa sanyatiensis leg bones as they were discovered in the ground on Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Credit: Paul Barrett

Musankwa sanyatiensis, a new dinosaur from Zimbabwe

Footprint found in Triassic rocks from South Wales Credit: Cindy Howells at the National Museum of Wales

Origins of ‘Welsh dragons’ finally exposed by experts

Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere. Nothosaurs swimming along the ancient southern polar coast of what is now New Zealand around 246 million years ago. Artwork by Stavros Kundromichalis.

Ancient polar sea reptile fossil is oldest ever found in Southern...

Photograph of a T. rex skeletal cast at Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany. T. rex lived at the end of the Cretaceous (about 66 million years ago) and was exclusive to western North America. Credit: Kai R. CasparKai R. Caspar

T. Rex not as smart as previously claimed

The artist’s impression shows a dromaeosaur, a type of feathered theropod, in the snow. This dinosaur group is popularly known as a raptor. A well-known dromaeosaur is Velociraptor, portrayed in the film Jurassic Park. Credit: Davide Bonadonna/Universidade de Vigo/UCL

First ‘warm-blooded’ dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million years ago

The specimen under natural light (a) and UV light (b) showing distinct fluorescence hues for bone (cyan) and soft tissues (yellow) against a dark purple sedimentary matrix.

Researchers discover hidden step in dinosaur feather evolution

Art by James Havens Nanuqsaurus, standing in the background, and pachyrhinosaurus, skull in the foreground, were among the dinosaur species included in a new study led by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Reading that calls into question Bergmann’s rule.

Dinosaur study challenges Bergmann’s rule

Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis is an early saurischian dinosaur. It shared a bipedal, running anatomy common to large carnivorous dinosaurs that would evolve in the future, but this dinosaur lived at a time when dinosaurs were small-bodied and rare. Credit: Kristina Curry Rogers (illustration by Jordan Harris, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Early dinosaurs grew up fast, but they weren’t the only ones

A theropod track lies in rock near the west bank of the Kukpowruk River. Photo courtesy of Anthony Fiorillo

Alaska dinosaur tracks reveal a lush, wet environment

The most common tooth type, of the famous Spinosaurus, with characteristic sail on its back. Images all from article discussed.

Higher carnivorous dinosaur biodiversity of famous Kem Kem beds, Morocco

Left: The flight feathers of Temminck's Lark. Right: The wing of a fossil bird, Confuciusornis. Photos by Yosef Kiat.

Which Dinosaurs Could Fly?

A typical early dinosaur, Eoraptor from the Late Triassic of Argentina. Photo Copyright: Nobu Tamura, Wikimedia

Dinosaurs’ success helped by specialized stance and gait, study finds

For decades, paleontologists have debated whether Nanotyrannus is a separate species or simply a juvenile T. rex. (Credit Raul Martin)

‘Juvenile T. rex’ fossils are a distinct species of small tyrannosaur

A mosasaur discovered in Japan was the most complete skeleton ever found in Japan or the northwestern Pacific. Graphic/Takuya Konishi

This Japanese ‘dragon’ terrorized ancient seas

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