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 ...

While sharing certain traits defining them as dinosaurs, they had sufficient differences that suggest millions of years of ...

Scientists are suggesting that dinosaurs may have originated in regions of the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest, areas that were once part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana. Their ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

In the latest days of the Triassic, early dinosaurs lived alongside giant amphibians, gharial-like phytosaurs and an array of crocodile relatives that took forms ranging from armadillo-like to ...

UW-Madison geology museum scientist Dave Lovelace’s 21st birthday was a bit unconventional. The Casper, Wyoming, native who ...

Scientists have long been puzzled about the origins of dinosaurs. Recent research suggests a surprising location based on the oldest-known dinosaur fossils, evolutionary relationships, and Triassic ...

They were the only group of dinosaurs to survive the Cretaceous mass extinction around 65 million years ago (not to be confused with the Permian-Triassic mass extinction ... It’s a reminder of just ...