My daughters and I joined a dozen of their friends on a visit to the Legends of the Giant Dinosaurs exhibition at the Hong Kong Science Museum during the last school holidays. Our expectations were ...

Most regular visitors of Chicago's Field Museum are on a first-name basis with Sue, the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that adorns the museum's front hall. Vlad Ghiea / Alamy When it comes to dinosaur ...

In zoology, whoever discovers a new species gets to name it. Normally this isn't a big deal; at this point, the only living animal species being discovered are either some isolated sea slug or some ...

The skull of “Bruce,” the world’s largest publicly-displayed mosasaur. Find Bruce at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Man. (Photo: Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre) Dan Aykroyd offers ...

This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea. The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the ...

Those paleontologists who name the most new dinosaur species are the least likely to get it right, a survey of nearly two centuries of research has found. The trend is as true for modern researchers ...