By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

Long-necked sauropods ruled the land during the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. These plant-eating giants appeared on every ...

Dinosaurs belong to a group of animals known as archosaurs, which also includes modern-day animals such as ... light bones and unique foot structure may have made it easier to grow so large.

“It does make you wonder ... mates and jockey for social status, just like modern animals, or to find their kin. With Edmontosaurus and other dinosaurs bearing soft tissues, paleontologists ...

Brazil’s Valley of the Dinosaurs in Paraíba state is best known for its extensive fossilized dinosaur tracks. But a recent ...

A new international study has confirmed that a mysterious feature found in dinosaur eggshells—called secondary eggshell units ...

rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million ... Photograph by Kobayashi, et, al Dinosaur claws were made of bone covered in keratin sheaths, the same biological component as our fingernails.

Surprisingly, Earth’s creatures were highly diverse during the Carboniferous and Permian Eras (the time before dinosaurs) and also enormous. Unearth the nine massive prehistoric animals that ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

We tend to associate dinosaurs with ground ... doves coo or ostriches boom. Many modern birds use what is known as closed-mouth vocalisation, where sound is made by inflating the throat rather ...

We don’t really know what types of sounds dinosaurs made, but paleontologists can ... are completely fabricated using sounds from modern animals. That’s when I decided to dive deeper and ...

“This discovery is important because it shows that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, grapes really started to spread across the world.” Much like the soft tissues of animals, actual ...