Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

New research suggests the theory that dinosaurs were declining before Chicxulub is the result of a poor (and misleading) ...

Families heading to Birdworld this Easter are in for a dino-mite day out after the park launched its prehistoric-themed exhibition.

The Jurassic World franchise has only scratched the surface of prehistoric dinosaurs to showcase, as they come in many sizes, ...

The University of Southampton's Hidden in Stone, which features a cast of Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning's Plesiosaurus, ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

The nearly complete specimen of a known plesiosaur species is opening scientists’ eyes to the diversification of these ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

Researchers found a new fossil of a marine dinosaur, Plesiopterys wildi, which gives clues to early life during ancient times.

An "exceptionally well-preserved" fossil may hold the key to understanding plesiosaur evolution. The newly discovered plesiosaur fossil, uncovered in Germany, suggests that long-necked marine ...