Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

I read a while back that there are likely still hundreds of dinosaur species out there waiting to be found. Something about ...

The researchers said they also discovered something unexpected – the dinosaur skin fossil they analysed was composed of silica, the same compound that is used to make glass. Scientists at the ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

In the case of dinosaurs we have their skeletons, but we also have other evidence that can give insight into their daily lives, including preserved gut contents, eggs, nests, footprints, skin ...

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

Scientists now believe that feathers didn’t just appear suddenly in birds. Instead, they evolved step by step from much ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

a new genus and species of dinosaur with movie-monster looks. Well protectedOsteoderms—bony armor plates—cover Zuul’s skin. Their thorny shapes are exaggerated by brownish sheaths once made ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have identified preserved organic molecules in the skin of a dinosaur that died around 66-million years ago. The well-preserved fossil of the plant-eating ...

The following dinosaur reconstructions were published in the 1960s in Museum guides. Fossil evidence and investigations from the past 50 years have revealed some scientific inaccuracies. Can you spot ...