At a Cretaceous lake in what is now northwestern China, paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of ancient birds ...

A fossil bed in northwestern China has been telling a strange story for years. Scattered through its rocks are the remains of ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

When you think of dinosaurs, you probably imagine enormous creatures like the Tyrannosaurus Rex chasing prey or massive long ...

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Lumbering, long-necked dinosaurs frequented the same watering hole as their predators some 167 million years ago, a scientific study of dinosaur footprints found. The footprints at what is now the ...

A new species of Velociraptor-like dinosaur from the Gobi desert in Mongolia had giant claws and exceptionally thickset hands, which may have enabled it to take down larger prey. The name of the ...

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and palaeontologists are still hunting for pieces of the puzzle today. Among them is the ...