Newly-discovered prints left by gigantic herbivores are part of a rich collection of tracks belonging to an estimated 21 different types of dinosaur
A giant flying reptile the size of a plane may have been the largest and most feared predator in ancient Transylvania.
A dramatic shift in the Earth’s climate killed off marine reptiles that swam at the time of the dinosaurs, according to a new study.
The true identity of a mysterious dinosaur known only from a pair of gigantic arms with huge claws that were found almost half a century ago has finally been revealed.
A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the 10-foot (0.3-meter) predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today’s South Africa. In less than a million years Dinogorgon vanished in the greatest mass extinction ever, along with about nine of every ten plant and animal species on the planet.
The skull of Protocetus atavus was discovered around Egypt, and they were giant whale like creatures that walked on land.
Scientists say they have a clue that may enable them to find traces of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs in the very crater it made on impact.
The new fossil is intriguing, but paleontologists have better ways of judging a dinosaur’s smarts
A crocodile-sized creature that lived 242 million years ago was the first known vegetarian marine reptile, according to new fossil evidence.
Geophysicists announced this week that they have successfully collected key samples from the site of the asteroid strike that likely wiped out the dinosaurs.
