"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

In a new study, scientists are piecing together the mysterious origins of dinosaurs, challenging long-held beliefs about ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

The bone was unearthed by researchers from the University of Reading.

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Fossils identified as a new species after being discovered in Wyoming are estimated to be around 230 million years old.

Research suggests dinosaurs first appeared in the ancient Gondwana supercontinent, including areas that are now the Amazon ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

A recent study suggests that dinosaurs likely originated from steamy equatorial regions like the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert, ch ...