The idea that birds—the most diverse group of land vertebrates, with nearly 10,000 living species—descended directly from dinosaurs isn't new. It was raised by the English biologist Thomas Henry ...

Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist, Xu Xing says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers. Stefen Chow In a pine forest in rural northeastern China, a ...

In a potentially terrifying case of life imitating art, the renowned paleontologist who served as the inspiration for Jurassic Park protagonist Dr. Alan Grant is spearheading genetic research that ...

A Feb. 28 Facebook video shows what appears to be small dinosaurs being held and touched by humans. "China 1st it was coronavirus now they're cloning dinosaurs," reads on-screen text featured in the ...

When John Hammond first brought his dream of a theme park filled with living dinosaurs to fruition in the first Jurassic Park, he did so with a clear plan for controlling the population. The idea was ...

A provocative study published earlier this year proposed that the world’s best-known and perhaps best-loved dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, was actually three separate species. Not so fast, says new ...

For clues as to how dinosaurs dated, we can look to the last living dinosaurs: birds. On Earth today, several species perform lek mating, a spectacular display that sees males gather together for what ...

A zoo in England celebrated the arrival of rare but adorable reptiles. The Chester Zoo just hatched six tuataras, the zoo announced on its Facebook page. The tuatara, also known as the "living ...

When I think about dinosaurs, I usually picture the big ones. I think of triceratops with its pointy horns or apatosaurus with its long, long neck. I asked my friend John Blong if those dinos ever ...