The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Fossils found on the shoreline of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe represent a completely new dinosaur species. This remarkable find, named Musankwa sanyatiensis, marks only the fourth dinosaur species named ...

In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ago. The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, ...

Evolutionary tree showing how dinosaur limb adaptation expanded through the Triassic period until it was greater overall than the spread of locomotion types in their competitors, including ...

A duo of sauropodomorphs; one munching on the newly evolved plants in a wet Early Jurassic environment whilst the other is looking up as if there was something hiding in the vegetation. Illustration: ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos ...

Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic came in a variety of shapes and sizes ...

A fossil site of "unique importance" has shed light on a lost prehistoric ecosystem where early dinosaurs roamed more than 200 million years ago. For a study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has analyzed fossilized dinosaur droppings—known as coprolites—to ...