WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the traits that helped make the dinosaurs such an evolutionary success story - thriving for 165 million years - was their fast growth rate, from massive meat-eaters like ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as big as Mount Everest was headed on a deadly collision course with Earth. The ...

The earliest dinosaurs had rapid growth rates, but so did many of the other animals living alongside them, according to a new study. The earliest dinosaurs had rapid growth rates, but so did many of ...

"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of the University of New South Wales Press, Ltd."--Title page verso. "The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China ...

There are an estimated 50 billion birds flying, walking and even swimming on planet Earth according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That number is divided ...

For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists has discovered remains of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rare fossils in New Mexico reveal dinosaurs were doing just fine before the asteroid annihilated ...

Kristi Curry Rogers receives funding from The National Science Foundation and the David B. Jones Foundation. It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their world.

Shutterstock Anytime someone finds a dinosaur fossil it is a big deal and very exciting, but some dinosaurs are better ...

Had a volcano-driven mass extinction not occurred at the end of the Triassic 201 million years ago, we likely would have had something closer to an Age of Crocodiles than the Age of Dinosaurs that ...