Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while ...

Recent fossil discoveries in Brazil have uncovered evidence that small, crocodile-like reptiles known as Parvosuchus aurelioi roamed the region before the age of dinosaurs. These ancient predatory ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

A new study links fossilized flying reptile tracks to animals that made them. Fossilized footprints reveal a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

Crocodile-like sebecids were known to roam South America after dinosaurs went extinct. Recently found fossils suggest they inhabited the Caribbean as well—and thrived there long after they disappeared ...

Researchers are uncovering the evolutionary steps that set the stage for dinosaurs to rule the planet Amy McDermott, PNAS Front Matter Paleontologists have found early examples of theropods, the group ...

Kristi Curry Rogers receives funding from The National Science Foundation and the David B. Jones Foundation. It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their world.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Extinct species are every bit as interesting as those that ...

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 ...

History of the discoveries of dinosaurs and Mesozoic reptiles in Mexico / Jose Ruben Guzman-Gutierrez and Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva -- Paleogeography and paleoenvironment of Mexico during the Mesozoic / ...

A newly discovered monstersaur roamed beneath the feet of giant dinosaurs. Paleontologists have described the new species as a giant Gila monster-like reptile, and bestowed on it a name fit for ...