But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

At the time, the Megalosaurus was viewed as a large reptile. The term "dinosaur", meaning "terrible lizard," wasn't even coined until 18 years later by Sir Richard Owen.

“Muscles willing, the dinosaur could be even more effective with a swing of its tail in controlling body attitude than the lizards,” Full said. Their report will appear in the journal Nature.

A 4 1/2-foot monitor lizard that terrorized Casselberry residents for months is down, but maybe not out. A police officer shot the reptile Sunday as it sunbathed on the banks of a retention pond.

Megalosaurus is a case in point. Buckland thought it was a lizard about 66 feet (20 meters) long, walked on four legs and could live on land or in the water. Scientists now know it was not ...

The dinosaur lived in an area we'd now recognize as eastern Asia around 70 million years ago, though remains have also been found in North America, according to the Western Australian Museum.

BOSTON (AP) — A “swift-footed lizard” that lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts has been named the state’s official dinosaur under legislation signed into law Wednesday ...

BOSTON — A "swift-footed lizard" that lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts has been named the state's official dinosaur under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov ...

BOSTON (AP) — A “swift-footed lizard” that lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts has been named the state’s official dinosaur under legislation signed into law Wednesday ...