Chinese &#39;Nessie&#39; Fossil Used Neck To Suck in Prey
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The finding of a dinosaur fossil in southern China has given new clues to the evolution and hunting practices of a long-necked aquatic reptile that lived some 230 million years ago, the magazine Science said on Thursday.
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Researchers in China have unearthed the fossil remains of a parrotlike dinosaur surrounded by 34 juveniles. The find suggests dinosaurs were nurturing parents.
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Chinese and American scientists have discovered a fossil in northeast China which has provided a first look at dinosaurs&#39; bird-like sleep.
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Fossilised remains found in southern China may hold the answer to a question that has long stumped palaeontologists: Just what is the purpose of the long neck on a group of predatory reptiles that roamed the earth millions of years ago?
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SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 -- For millions of years, the Chinese river dolphin  basked in the waters of the mighty Yangtze, a gray phantom more than six feet long with a sharp snout and tiny eyes. The endearing creature, which the Chinese call baiji, was the stuff of legend, a goddess to some, and the...
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A dino-era graveyard of large, predatory sea reptiles has been found by fossil hunters, including the remains of an estimated 33-foot-long (10-meter-long) beast dubbed "the Monster."&#149; Arctic sea monster images >>
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A Texas museum that teaches creationism is counting on the auction of a prehistoric mastodon skull to stave off extinction. The founder and curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, which rejects evolution and claims that man and dinosaurs coexisted, said it will close unless the Volkswagen-sized skull finds a generous bidder.
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CLEVELAND - A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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A rare fossil from the age of the dinosaurs is shedding light on when the modern crocodile first evolved a skull strong enough to keep hold of its prey during the dismembering &#39;death roll&#39;.
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The bizarre-looking, 78-million-year-old dino had horns as large as human arms, and its skull was frilled with spikes the size of sharks' teeth.
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WASHINGTON - A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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What is more, the creature, which lived 60 to 70 million years before T. rex, had fluffy feathers covering its body. Xing Xu and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing found their tyrannosauroid
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The unusual British dinosaur Baryonyx fed on fish, despite it having the body of a meat-eater, a new study finds.
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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The Louis Armstrong of the late Cretaceous? Researchers led by the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah have unearthed a new species of dinosaur - a massive plant-eater belonging to the hadrosaur group of plant-eating duck-billed dinos, which may have had the ability to bang out a tune using a fan-shaped bony crest on its skull.â¦
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Scientists have found the remains of a dinosaur in a fossilized mammal's stomach, a discovery that upends decades of scientific belief about the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.