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Tue, 2019-07-02

One question that remains about Jurassic Park is why the dinosaurs don't have feathers in any of the movies. The original s...

Tue, 2019-07-02

Five-year-old Kessler Burdt, a kindergartner at Altoona Elementary School, is wild about dinosaurs. So much so that upon meeting him with his new Mohawk haircut for summer, one could almost see him take on the persona of a dinosaur, cu...

Tue, 2019-07-02

Sixty-six million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid smashed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico. Red-hot debri...

Thu, 2019-07-04

“We’ve named more new dinosaurs in the last 20 years than in the previous 150,” says one researcher.

Sat, 2019-06-29

Mass extinctions hurt land plants, but DNA shows that some fungus/plant combo organisms rose up....

Sun, 2019-06-30

The biggest dinosaur ever discovered just wishes you'd drop him a line.

Tue, 2019-07-02

Drumheller's iconic museum has opened its newly-constructed expansion ahead of what's expected to be one of its busiest weekends of the year.

Sat, 2019-06-29

A veggie diet arose in extinct crocodyliforms — the distant cousins of living crocodylians (alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and gharials) — at least three times, according to new research.

Sat, 2019-06-29

A giant ostrich-like bird that lived about two million years ago (Pleistocene epoch) has been identified from a...

Fri, 2019-06-28

Just over a meter and a half in length (five feet), the fossil remains of the Vespersaurus paranaensis were found in Cruzeiro do Oeste municipality of Parana state, a team of paleontologists from Brazil and Ar...

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