WASHINGTON -- Tyrannosaurus Rex and his buddies could be on the move as a new study proposes a massive shake-up of the dinosaur family tree. Scientists who took a deeper look at dinosaur fossils ...

Hidden in rocks may have animal kingdom’s oldest known predator. Hidden in rocks once thought too old to contain complex life we may have found the animal kingdom’s oldest known predator. Hidden in ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees" worldwide. Wollemi pines (Wollemia nobilis) shared the same Earth as the ...

(CNN) — Scientists have identified a previously unknown 86 million-year-old dinosaur species that fills an early gap in the fossil record of tyrannosaurs, revealing how they evolved to become massive ...

TERUEL, Spain — Paleontologists have been piecing together the history of stegosaurs with frustratingly incomplete fossils for decades. But researchers in Spain recently discovered a pristine skull ...

Most dinosaurs were not part of the lineage that gave rise to birds; they occupied other branches of the dinosaur family tree. Sinosauropteryx, in fact, was what paleontologists call a non-avian ...

Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist, Xu Xing says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers. Stefen Chow In a pine forest in rural northeastern China, a ...

It was a gray morning on the steppes of central Mongolia when paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig spotted something glinting on a distant slope. It was not a rock. As he drew closer, he realized he ...