Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass extinction that wiped out all ...

the evolutionary relationships among these early forms and Earth's geography during the Triassic Period. This locale spans ...

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

Dinosaurs likely originated in a locale that spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest regions, study suggests ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history.

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

Scientists are suggesting that dinosaurs may have originated in regions of the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest, areas that were once part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana. Their ...

Scientists in Alberta have discovered a fossilized neck bone of Cryodrakon boreas, hinting at an ancient croc attack.