Newly discovered in Montana, this Tyrannosaurus had a sensitive side – just look at its face
Comparisons of fossil skulls with modern birds and crocodilians showed that the tyrannosaur probably had a very sensitive face.
Unprecedented discovery of 21 dinosaur tracks in Australia's Jurassic Park is 'globally unparalleled'
The tracks had been known for decades but no one had ever investigated them in depth.
Drones will go dinosaur hunting to help scientists track prehistoric footprints
Drone mapping of dinosaurs' tracks is expected to revolutionise the way researchers investigate dinosaurs.
For nearly 130 years, we've been getting dinosaurs' family tree all wrong
Another look at the evolutionary history of dinosaurs resolves a long-standing puzzle about birds' earliest ancestors.
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Unprecedented preservation of dinosaur soft tissue discovered with proteins 195 million years old
Haematite made from dinosaur blood acted as an antioxidant to preserve the protein collagen, palaeontologists say.
Giant fossil found in Transylvania was a ferocious flying predator that could devour horse-sized dinosaurs
The pterosaur Hatzegopteryx had a thick stocky neck that allowed it to eat very large prey.
180-million-year-old relative of vampire squid unearthed at newly-discovered Jurassic fossil bed
Many of the specimens found at the site are incredibly rare, with soft body parts preserved including bones.
A 75-million-year-old lizard species that lived with dinosaurs has been discovered on Egg Mountain
The newly discovered species lived alongside dinosaurs at Egg Mountain in Montana, US.
A monster otter that roamed Earth six million years ago has been discovered in China
Huge species was as big as a wolf and is thought to be the largest otter to have ever lived.
It became cold. I mean, really cold: Global temperatures in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid
The big chill that followed the impact appears to have played a bigger role in dinosaur extinction than we thought.
Megalodon might have gone extinct because of its weakness for tiny whales
Bite marks indicate Carcharocles megalodon was feeding on relatively small prey before they disappeared.
The first humans in Australia lived alongside giant wombats and other beasts for 17,000 years
Fossil of a wombat the size of a bull shedding light on how ancient Aboriginals lived.
Inside of ancient shark skull reveals evolutionary origins of eerie ghost sharks
Mysterious ghost sharks share features with prehistoric symmoriiform sharks
Why did dinosaurs go extinct but birds survived? Answer revealed - in eggs
Dinosaurs were lumbered with an evolutionary 'dead man's hand' that birds escaped.
Why did the dinosaur lose its teeth? To become a vegetarian
These ferocious baby dinosaurs' teeth all fell out as they turned into adults.
A new dinosaur species is described every 10 days. But how many were there altogether?
Dinosaurs became extremely diverse for three main reasons: specialisation, localisation, and speciation.
Dinosaurs may have survived extinction events by having a huge range of body sizes
Size variations within a species or genus was very large, which may have made them more resilient to natural disasters.
'Mud Dragon' dinosaur fossil uncovered in Chinese dynamite explosion remains largely intact
The fossil suggests that a group of feathered dinosaurs was thriving right before the mass extinction.
Dinosaur claws were tough – even the proteins in their sheaths have survived for 75 million years
The proteins show strong similarities to those found in the claw sheaths of birds living today.
Dinosaurs might have been among the few species to survive the Great Dying mass extinction
The earliest dinosaurs may have walked the Earth 20 million years earlier than we thought.
Dinosaur brains have been discovered for the first time ever
Discovery could mean dinosaurs had much bigger brains than they are given credit for.
A decade of evolution research got its math all wrong
Palaeontologists have been using a method that turns their results into nonsense.
Millions of years ago Siberia was hot - and home to parrots
A fossil shows that parrots like those alive today were in northern Asia millions of years ago.
Rock cores offer tantalising glimpse into life on Earth after dinosaur extinction
Scientists say microbial life soon returned to the site of an asteroid impact that wiped out 75% of all life.
Giant dinosaurs - like massive T-Rex - often had ornamented skulls
T-Rex and other large theropods that grew quickly in size often displayed crests or horns.
Scientists discover evidence that one dinosaur could make itself seem 'flat'
The Chinese Psittacosaurus could disguise itself from predators.
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