An asteroid slammed down and did away with all the dinosaurs, paving the way for such developments as the human race, capitalism, and posting on the internet: it’s the story we all know and love. Yet if things had shaken out differently—if the asteroid had stayed in its place, and the dinosaurs allowed to proceed with their business—what would things have looked like?

Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an international team of scientists, researchers at The University of Manchester have identified a new species of Archaeopteryx that is closer to modern birds...

People have always known of dinosaurs, though they have called them by many names. Old legends that place Western dragons in caves…

This meat-eating dinosaur was the first of its kind to be huge.

In a spellbinding talk, paleontologist Jack Horner tells the story of how iconoclastic thinking revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs.

Scientists have discovered a new species of tiny tyrannosaur that lived some 95 million years ago in what’s now Utah. The find helps fill a frustrating gap in the fossil record at a critical time when tyrannosaurs were evolving from small, speedy hunters, into the bone-crushing apex predators we know so well. The new dinosaur has been dubbed Moros intrepidus, and its name means “harbinger of doom.” The creature, known only from a leg bone and some various teeth, weighed under 200 pounds as a fully-grown adult. It was a specialist predator and scientists say it was fast enough to easily run down prey while avoiding other meat-eaters.

Make way for Tyrannosaurus rex, everyone’s favorite killer. A new show at the American Museum of Natural History places T. rex amid a global family of prehistoric predators.

The discovery of a previously unknown species of small herbivorous dinosaur in the south-eastern corner of Australia confirms that life thrived in a vast rift valley that once existed between the continent and Antarctica, palaeontologists say. The dinosaur, identified from five fossilised jaw bones, would have been about the size of a wallaby, or a Labrador. The bones were unearthed from a site in the Gippsland region of the state of Victoria, and date from the Cretaceous period, which began about 145 million years ago.

The beginning of the end started with violent shaking that raised giant waves in the waters of an inland sea in what is now North Dakota. Then, tiny glass beads began to fall like birdshot from the heavens. The rain of glass was so heavy it may have set fire to much of the vegetation on land. In the water, fish struggled to breathe as the beads clogged their gills.

If, on a certain evening about sixty-­six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared to be a star. If you watched for an hour or two, the star would have seemed to grow in brightness, although it barely moved. That’s because it was not a star but an asteroid, and it was headed directly for Earth at about forty-five thousand miles an hour.

Sixty-six million years ago, a giant meteor slammed into Earth off the coast of modern-day Mexico. Firestorms incinerated the landscape for miles around. Even creatures thousands of miles away were doomed on that fateful day, if not by fire and brimstone, then by mega-earthquakes and waves of unimaginable size.

Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid is believed to have crashed into Earth. The impact wiped out huge numbers of species, including almost all of the dinosaurs. One group of dinosaurs managed to survive the disaster. Today, we know them as birds.

A number of tiny, bat-winged dinosaurs flew the Jurassic skies, according to the strongest evidence yet for such creatures—a well-preserved fossil of a starling-size fluffball that may have looked a little like a flying squirrel. The find, recovered near a farming village in northeastern China, suggests dinosaurs were experimenting with several methods of flight during this period, but many were an evolutionary dead end.

Share A team of Argentine paleontologists unearthed a giant reptile in Antarctica. Looking like the famous Loch Ness monster, this huge Elasmosaurid found in Antarctica is the largest one of its species ever found so far. The Argentine Antarctic Institute conducted the research, and the paleontologist José O’Gorman of the Museum of La Plata...

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Feathered dinosaurs look freaky!

Feather used for sex for dinosaurs??

The real-life fossils belong to a new species of phorusrhacid, giant predators also known as terror birds that once dominated South America.

This is an amazing post-apocalyptic New Zealand dinosaur illustration by Weta concept artist and Dr. Grordbort's creator Greg Broadmore.

An eccentric Australian mining magnate who is building a replica of the ill-fated Titanic has unveiled his latest scheme -- a park of giant robotic dinosaurs. The world's biggest dinosaur exhibit will have 165 life-size animatronic dinosaurs.

Once considered beyond the reach of science, insights into the love lives of these extinct giants are emerging

The studio rolls out the 3D version of Steven Spielberg's 1993 sci-fi adventure on Friday.

Australian mining mogul Clive Palmer wants to establish an island filled with giant, robotic dinosaurs — and that’s not an April Fools’ joke, the AFP reports. Luckily, though, Palmer appears to have moved on from his original dream of cloning a dinosaur and instead has decided to fill his island with giant robotic ones. Perhaps someone finally showed the billionaire Jurassic Park.

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No bones about it - students at a Bondi school were thrilled to have a prehistoric visitor.

On June 11, 1993, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park hit theaters, wowing audiences with its incredibly lifelike depictions of dinosaurs. It grossed $900 million worldwide. Today, the film is being rereleased in 3D, so we're celebrating its 20th anniversary a little early. Here are 20 things you might not have known about Jurassic Park.

Just how quick was the great tyrant lizard, exactly? Experts in biomechanics think she was pretty damn quick – but still probably not as fast as you think.

Reconstructing dinosaur behaviour – such as the hunting strategy of raptors – is fraught with difficulty.

This specimen is from the Judith River Formation along the Milk River in southern Alberta. It is Campanian (Late Cretaceous) in age, which corresponds to about 80 million years old. It is an example of ideal preservation, and shows all the microstructural features typical of most fossil vertebrate bone. Little or no alteration of the hydroxyapatite appears to have occurred, and a significant amount of the pore space is not infilled with minerals and retains its "spongey" texture.

A new species of dinosaur found in NE China has added further  evidence that feathers developed originally or uses other than flight.

Queensland paleontologists have discovered that the world's only recorded dinosaur stampede is largely made up of the tracks of swimming rather than running animals.

Australia's links to South America have just gotten a bit closer, but not due to economic forces, rather fossil forces. University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Steve Salisbury was part of an international team of palaeontologists from the US, Argentina and Australia that identified a fossil that had previously only been found in South America.

University of Alberta researcher’s examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and turkeys.

With several of the embryos petrified at different stages of development, it offers a rare insight into exactly how dinosaurs developed inside eggs...