The cast of the skull of Nigersaurus. The fossil skull of Nigersaurus was one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans. Photograph by Ira Block, Nat Geo Image ...

A new study reveals that as vegetation changed over millions of years, some plant-eating dinosaurs adapted by evolving faster ...

Fossils often serve as a time capsule, aiding researchers in understanding past events. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers has used a ...

Dinosaurs may have vanished millions of years ago, but their teeth still carry a message from Earth’s distant past. A team of scientists from the Universities of Göttingen, Mainz, and Bochum has shown ...

Late in the Cretaceous Period, when tyrannosaurs and their kin were the ruling predators on land, large swimming reptiles ruled the seas. Among them were the plesiosaurs and the mosasaurs. The suffix ...

An argument over whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a ...

Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including ...

Dr. Scott explains the difference between human teeth and T. Rex teeth. Dr. Scott explains the difference between human teeth and T. Rex teeth, and points out some similarities between the T. Rex and ...

The new species is called Nanotyrannus. Compared to the well known tyrannosaurus rex, a nanotyrannus was more speedy and ...

Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis has been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including Allosaurus ...