Dinosaurs

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Mary Schweitzer, of North Carolina State...

A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?

This discovery is significant because it fills in a gap in our understanding of tyrannosaur evolution

A new species of Allosaurus.

They were only about 200g.

Many dinosaurs were covered with simple hair-like feathers. These feathers solely served as insulation to keep dinosaurs warm and had absolutely nothing to do...

Birds are the only living amniotes with colored eggs which have long been considered to be an avian innovation. A recent study now has...

Birds are famous for their colorful feathers, which they use to fly, flirt, and keep warm. But have you ever imagined, what came first,...

An excavation site in North Dakota sheds new light on what happened when a giant meteorite struck planet Earth, 66 million years ago. On that...

Almost 60 million years ago, it is normally comprehended that the dinosaurs vanished with a blast – wiped out by an extraordinary meteorite impact. But their...