Construction workers in the Tongnan District of southwestern China expected to spend their day pouring concrete for a foundation at a new industrial building project. Instead, the heavy machinery ...

Scientists have unearthed a "peculiar" ancient crocodile that walked on two legs – after beginning its life on four. Named Sonselasuchus cedrus, the creature roamed the Earth during the Late Triassic ...

“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

Among the strangest branches of the dinosaur family tree are the alvarezsauroids, small, bird‑like theropods that lived from the Jurassic into the Cretaceous. They don’t fit the image of sharp‑toothed ...

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 ...

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

The poodle-sized reptile that lived over 200 million years ago was among creatures that had features similar to dinosaurs it ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

大英博物馆通过公众募捐筹集了上百万英镑以支付购买这件珠宝。大英博物馆馆长尼古拉斯·库里南表示，公众的响应显示出人们对英国历史的高度珍视。 The pendant will join the museum's collection later this year and is expected to tour the UK.

A "peculiar" ancient relative of the crocodile which experts believe began life on four legs before, in adulthood, it learned ...

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...