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Titanosaurs were common at the time of the asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. (Credit: AlienCat)

New analysis refutes claim that dinosaurs were in decline before asteroid...

The extinct Kiritimati Sandpiper, Prosobonia cancellata - a close cousin of the newly discovered Prosobonia sauli. Credit: George Edward Lodge, 1907

Henderson island fossils reveal new Polynesian sandpiper species

Fossil specimen of Kylinxia, holotype. Credit: ZENG Han

A 520-million-year-old, five-eyed fossil reveals arthropod origin

Rhamphohynchus - one of 75 pterosaur species studied by the researchers Credit: Mark Witton

Giant lizards learnt to fly over millions of years

An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Tyler Stone BA '19, art and cinema; see his website tylerstoneart.wordpress.com

Ancient marine predator had a built-in float

Buriolestes schultzi brain. Credit: Márcio L. Castro

Researchers reconstruct the first complete brain of one of the oldest...

CT scan of coprolite specimen, BRSMG Cf15546, in different views, showing tuberculated bone (blue) from a fish skull, and two vertebrae from the tail of the marine reptile Pachystropheus, in yellow and green. Credit: Marie Cueille, and Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol

Fossil poop shows fishy lunches from 200 million years ago

A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R. Kligman. Credit: Virginia Tech

New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered

Kopidosaurus perplexus skull in left lateral view. Credit: Simon Scarpetta

Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ extinct species

This illustration shows a reconstruction of Ambopteryx in a glide. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

These two bird-sized dinosaurs evolved the ability to glide, but weren’t...

A crocodile next to a mastodon of the genus Anancus and primitive horses of the genus Hipparion in a similar environment to what could have been Valencia six million years ago. Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC)

African crocodiles lived in Spain six million years ago

Teeth of a large dinosaur, possibly Metriacanthosauridae, from the Liuhuanggou site in the southern Junggar basin. Scale: 1 cm. Credit: University of Tübingen

Tooth marks and lost teeth offer insights into dinosaur feeding behavior

Reconstruction of Morganucodon (left) and Kuehneotherium (right) hunting in Early Jurassic Wales 200 million years ago. Credit: Original painting by John Sibbick, 2013. Copyright: Pam Gill

Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles

An artist's impression of Leptostomia begaaensis Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth

Beak bone reveals pterosaur like no other

Researchers discover fossils of new species in Arizona

Artist's rendering of Gavialimimus almaghribensis, a newly discovered species of mosasaur that ruled the seas of what is now Morocco some 72 to 66 million years ago. Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura

Paleontologists identify new species of mosasaur

Micro-CT reconstruction of Mysteriomorphus pelevini Credit: D. Peris & R. Kundrata et al. / Scientific Reports

Scientists reconstruct beetles from the Cretaceous

Fossil and life reconstruction of Juravenator, a small carnivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic of Germany. The arrow points to the sensory organ, which are found on polygonal scales covering the lower part of the tail. Credit: Jake Baardse.

Carnivorous dinosaur had crocodile-like senses

Naked prehistoric monsters

Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted

Artist's impression of Oksoko avarsan dinosaurs (credit: Michael Skrepnick)

Lost digits point to spread of parrot-like dinosaur

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