Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Scientists have discovered chemically confirmed traces of ancient blood inside 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones, ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they're still thriving today! Known as "living fossils," these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for roughly 180 million years, filling nearly every ecological role available to them. Yet one gap in their story has puzzled scientists for decades: there were no small ones ...

A new study found chemical evidence of red blood cells in a 115 million-year-old dinosaur bone, offering new clues about how biological material can survive.

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how ...

The First Four Billion Years. The extinction at the end of the Cretaceous is a turning point in his book, and the chapters ...

Sports-lover turned journalist, born and bred in Scotland, with a passion for football (soccer). He’s also a keen follower of NFL, NBA, golf and tennis, among others, and always has an eye on the ...

This article was originally published by Quanta Magazine. When the paleontologist Michael D’Emic cut into the bones of Majungasaurus, a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Madagascar ...

Among the ravenous carnivores and lumbering herbivores that roamed the Cretaceous landscape, another kind of dinosaur was ...