“Maybe some of them collapsed because a big sauropod dinosaur walked by,” says Olsen. “Or maybe it was an earthquake. Or ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has refuted the long-standing hypothesis that ...

Researchers studied dinosaur footprints from 106 million years ago, revealing that a bird-sized raptor used its wings to ...

Shravan Pradeep and colleagues use a series of mechanical tests and advanced imaging techniques to understand how the mud ...

Dinosaurs sometimes left behind footprints as they walked across stretches of mud. In some instances, these prints became fossilized and survived to modern times—they are known as trackways.

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar ...

They may be an ocean apart, but dinosaur footprints found in South America and Africa are so similar that their discovery ...

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It was thought to be caused by a volcanic eruption. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.

The dinosaur drew his sickle claws upward, ready to make a lethal strike. But something wasn’t right. The ground was sinking. His legs were trapped in sand and mud. Limbs flailing, the hunter ...

Hector the Deinonychus highlights how, like works of art, fossils too can be sold to the highest bidder. That has ...

Do Fossil Prints Show Dinosaur Flight Evolved More Than Once? Researchers studying tracks fossilized in Cretaceous-era lakeshore mud in what is now South Korea argue this week in Proceedings of ...