The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images.

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

The dinosaur was about as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a unique nasal horn and symmetrical teeth that it used to eat ...

Paleontologists found the fossilized skull in Yunnan Province’s Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. The group determined the skull belonged to a sauropodomorph—a group of dinosaurs that also ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

Troodon had a large brain for its relatively small size and was probably among the smartest dinosaurs. Its brain is proportionally larger than those found in living reptiles, so the animal may ...

At the time of the photos, the fossils were thought to belong to a large theropod dinosaur called Carcharodontosaurus — but closer inspection of the photos revealed a prominent horn, an enlarged ...

a large, carnivorous theropod that lived in Northwest Africa between 100 and 94 million years ago. The remains were stored with other Egyptian dinosaur fossils at the Bavarian State Collection for ...