A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

A growing body of research on dinosaurs' closest living relatives suggests the method that's been used to estimate how old a dinosaur was when it died may be leading paleontologists astray.

When we think of the world's greatest prehistoric predators, a few terrifying giants tend to steal the spotlight, Tyrannosaurus rex, Spinosaurus, and Allosaurus. These dinosaurs are so iconic that ...

When dinosaurs disappeared, Earth didn’t stay empty for long — but what came next is still a mystery built from scattered clues. Fossils show a rapid reshuffling of ecosystems, with certain animals ...

Though some body parts fell away, possibly due to opportunistic scavengers, the dinosaurs remained largely intact. Falling into a giant muddy footprint isn’t a bad way to go if you want to become a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This specimen of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx exhibits what paleontologists call the dinosaur death pose or the ...

(via Be Smart) A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by moment? In this video we meet a geologist who has explored ...

Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to a new study ...