The microstructure of Smets' "dinosaur" revealed the fossils to be petrified wood. From Hovelacque, 1890 Naming a new dinosaur is a tricky thing. More often than not, previously unknown dinosaurs ...

Robert Nicholls, a paleoartist from Bristol, England, was in the process of creating the world’s most realistic model dinosaur when he realized it was absolutely adorable. It was, in fact, perhaps too ...

Naming a new dinosaur can be a tricky thing. Although nearly-complete skeletons often make headlines, more often than not new species are based upon fragmentary material. In these cases further ...

The duck-billed dinosaur Parasaurolophus is distinctive for its prominent crest, which some scientists have suggested served as a kind of resonating chamber to produce low-frequency sounds. Nobody ...

Then you look closer and notice the detail: how the ribs are built at different lengths to create a rib "cage," how the dark-colored bricks create the illusion of shadow and throw the light-colored ...

A new study is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations ...

How do you work out what an extinct animal sounded like? One place we can look to is their fossils, and a new research ...

In an effort to resurrect the sounds of prehistoric life, researchers from New York University developed a three-dimensional model aiming to recreate the vocalizations of the duck-billed dinosaur ...

A contractor hired by the Bureau of Land Management appears to have damaged dinosaur tracks near Moab while conducting renovations intended to protect one of Utah’s most significant paleontological ...