A team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of beaked dinosaur in Japan. The newly identified species, named Sasayamagnomus saegusai, is a close relative of the famous triceratops ...

“Sasayama” comes from the Sasayama Basin, which is where the fossils were found. And “gnomus” is Latin for gnome, a creature ...

Alone Tyrannosaurus rex sniffs the humid Cretaceous air, scenting a herd of Triceratops grazing beyond ... Ever since dinosaurs were first described in the early 1800s, paleontologists have ...

Would a T.rex catch a Triceratops? What did a Stegosaurus eat? Where did the Yi find its food? How do we know what dinosaurs looked like? Make predictions, use scientific equipment and perform ...

Ceratopsians are most famous for the triceratops, but the beaked family of herbivorous dinosaurs also included numerous other relatives throughout the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous Periods.

Photo courtesy of Karen Chin To gaze upon a full T. rex skeleton is to be transported back in time. Dinosaur fossils are key to understanding what these prehistoric creatures looked like, how they ...

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous ...

A team of paleontologists recently found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents. One set is in Brazil and the other is roughly 3,700 miles ...

The Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, a new species and genus of theropod dinosaur, has been discovered in Kyrgyzstan by an expedition team of German and Kyrgyz researchers, according to the Bavarian State ...

The researchers said that of all the cosmic bodies they have studied that struck Earth in the last 500 million years, only the one that exterminated the dinosaurs was a water-rich asteroid.