Despite the common belief that reptiles such as crocodiles and alligators are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? Maybe you think of four-legged herbivores like Apatosaurus or Triceratops. Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or ...

Death in the wild is often brutal and violent. But for one small, birdlike dinosaur in the late Cretaceous Period, the end of its life was relatively peaceful — it curled up to take a nap and never ...

One hundred and fifty million years ago, a young, bantam-sized, bird-like dinosaur became mired in a swamp in what is now southeastern China, and succumbed. Its fossilized remains, unearthed in 2022 ...

A previously unknown, bird-like dinosaur species that is thought to have lived around 70 million years ago has been discovered. Researchers found the fossilized remains of the "bizarre" new species in ...

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A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak. It's from a branch of the bird family ...

Argentine paleontologists found a 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg in Río Negro. This rare find is believed to belong to a ...

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