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In its past life, the skeleton of the Allosaurus had been mounted in a running pose, its front legs raised, jaw open wide — the very pictur...
Junchang Lü was is one of the most important dinosaur researchers of the past half century.
The footprints, first detected in Yanqing in 2011, are believed to have been left by dinosaurs living some 140 to 150 million years ago in the late...
Scientists from the University of California, Riverside, are claiming to have discovered the oldest known animal fossil—an ancient sea sponge that emerged between 660 million and 635 million years ago.
A new, in-depth anatomical description of the best preserved specimens of Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis, a sauropod relative from North America, could help paleontologists with unraveling the mystery of why these dinosaurs got so big....
A team of palaeontologists have recreated Tyrannosaurus rex based on the most up-to-date research – and it’s...
If you’ve seen a dinosaur skeleton in a museum in the past 20 years, chances are you’ve seen the work of Research Casting International, a company that builds exhibits for museums around the world, including the Royal Ontario Museum, i...
A leading expert on dinosaurs is hoping new technological advances will help solve the mystery of the “Elgin reptiles”.
The fossil is believed to be the remains of a sauropod dinosaur, a member of the huge herbivorous species that li...
Popularized in the hit movie "Jurassic World," the mosasaur has come back to life after an 85 million-year-old fossil of a newborn creature was discovered in Kansas.