In western North America during the twilight of the dinosaur age, the unquestioned ruler was Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the ...

“Every nook and cranny and bump that occurs on a bone can tell us something about where the muscles or tendons attached and ...

An unexpected discovery emerged among the dusty layers of a construction site in Ganzhou, southeast China. A fossil egg, ...

During the Early Cretaceous period, a varied bird population thrived in the southern ... Scientists highlighted that except for the solitary bone and a small collection of feathers, the footprints ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus ... a dinosaur,' says palaeontologist Dr Susie Maidment. 'There were small, furry mammals running around at the feet of the ...

The most diverse birds during the Cretaceous Period were a now-extinct group called enantiornithines, known from all over the world during this time. However, enantiornithines and other Mesozoic ...

Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a new study. Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period saw one of the most dramatic mass extinctions Earth has ever seen ... But then 66 million years ago, over a relatively short time, dinosaurs disappeared completely ...

Rather than a juvenile of a known species, several fossilized bones represent a new species – and shed light on the question of whether dinosaurs were already in decline before disaster struck ...

The analyses revealed these feet would have been strong enough for these birds to pick up small mammals and potentially baby dinosaurs. [Related: The first true flying vertebrates walked before ...