That’s the literal translation of the term Dinosauria, coined by Sir Richard Owen in the 19th century to describe the colossal bones early paleontologists were unearthing. For a long time, the name ...

You may want to forget everything you learned during your childhood obsession with the Tyrannosaurus Rex. A review of thousands of fossils and a new theory announced Wednesday may topple a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the world’s rarest trees, dubbed the dinosaur tree, is bearing fruit for the first time in a garden in Worcestershire - ...

When we think about living fossils, most of us likely think about crocodiles, alligators, sharks or some other primeval creature that has roamed the world for millions of years. But what about trees?

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees" ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has acquired a rare Wollemi pine tree, a tree species that lived alongside dinosaurs and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in Australia in 1994. CU ...

Drivers passing through Arkansas often slow down when they spot giant dinosaur statues beside the road at this fun and ...

During a blip in time in the late Jurassic, a dinosaur that weighed no more than a chinchilla flung itself from tree to tree, spread its wings and tried to soar. In theory, it sounds beautiful — an ...

WASHINGTON — Tyrannosaurus Rex and his buddies could be on the move as a new study proposes a massive shake-up of the dinosaur family tree. Scientists who took a deeper look at dinosaur fossils ...