(Kelly Enright) While this automotive Triceratops—we think?—from Hanksville, Utah does win some bonus points for recycling, our first thought when opening the image was “Oh geez! Kill it with fire!” ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again, many existing birds have also evolved this system, which helps them ...

(Reuters) - Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose ...

Scientists from several countries have identified a new dinosaur species called Foskeia pelendonum, a very small plant-eating ...

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just funny-looking fossils. As my team's new research published in Royal Society Open ...

One cervical half-ring with elongate spikes, small spikes covering the dorsum of the body and large spikes and a sacral shield over the hips are in their known positions on the body; the location of ...

"The armor of Spicomellus is jaw-droppingly weird, unlike that of any other dinosaur - or any other animal alive or dead - that we've ever discovered," said vertebrate paleontologist Richard Butler of ...

Scaly, feathered, toothed, or beaked—long-necked, spike-tailed, tiny, or gargantuan—dinosaurs are a wildly diverse group. But certain dinos stand above the rest, both literally and on the plinth of ...

Fossils of Duonychus unearthed in Gobi Desert of Mongolia It had two fingers on each hand, with large curved claws It is a member of the therizinosaur dinosaur group March 25 (Reuters) - Fossils ...