A fascinating discovery in the world of paleontology has shattered the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by films like Jurassic Park. A newly identified dinosaur species, Pulaosaurus ...

Scientists in China report the discovery of a new dinosaur species that might have sounded like a bird. Researchers ...

Pulaosaurus lived in the thick forests of what is now northeastern China, part of a fossil-rich region called the Yanliao ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

However, the fossil really stands out because, in a rare stroke of luck for paleontologists, its bony vocal organs were ...

Archaeopteryx, the first known bird, was a small dinosaur weighing about .99 kilograms. Small size might have been key to the evolutionary success of the lineage that led to birds. (Roger Benson) ...

The small alvarezsaur’s posture emulated that of two other dinosaur fossils found in Mongolia that were also curled up in birdlike sleeping poses: Sinornithoides youngi and Mei long. Those two are ...

Science Bird-like dinosaur could hunt in total darkness, pointing to thriving prehistoric 'nightlife' Shuvuuia deserti lived 70 million years ago in what is today Mongolia and northern China ...

Birds evolved from small feathered dinosaurs about 150 million years ago. Early birds retained many ancestral features including teeth. The Falcatakely fossil has a single conical tooth in the front ...

Now, tiny pieces of those fossil egg shells offer new evidence about how dinosaurs lived, bred and evolved into birds. A new study shows emu-sized, meat-eating troodons were as warm-blooded as ...

Life Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton is now on display in London’s ...