Dinosaurs Were Doting Parents, Fossil Find Suggests
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The discovery suggests that the care that crocodiles, birds, and other modern descendents of archosaurs give to their young may be an ancestral characteristic.
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Scientists say they have found a small, earlier cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex that had at least a partial coat of feathers. Includes image gallery.
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By Chen Liang  In "The Age of Dinosaurs," it was not just birds and pterosaurs (winged reptiles) that flew as thought till now  there was also a "flying squirrel" which could glide down from treetops like a bat.
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Parents have been doting over their  offspring for a very, very long time, it seems.
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Villagers in central China spent decades digging up bones they believed belonged to flying dragons and using them in traditional medicines. Turns out the bones belonged to dinosaurs, and now scientists are doing the digging.
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Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems. A South African fossil suggests pelycosaurs -- intermediates between reptiles and mammals that lived in the Permian Period before the rise of dinosaurs -- may have been caring parents 260 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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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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Tiny bumps on the fossilized arm bone of a Velociraptor specimen show that the carnivorous dinosaur&mdash;made infamous in the movie &quot;Jurassic Park&quot;&mdash;had feathers.
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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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Villagers digging in China's rich fossil beds have uncovered the preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals couldn't possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.
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Blog: Paleontologists have found that precursors to dinosaurs weren't so rapidly replaced as previously thought.
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PHILADELPHIA _ Dinosaur hunters of the world, grab your picks and hammers!   You've barely scratched the surface, according to a study published this weekday by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.
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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might 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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A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests.   The unearthed beaked dinosaur  was not full-grown, yet it tipped the scales at more than 3,000 pounds. Paleontologists who discovered its remains estimate the behemoth was just 11 years old when it perished.   Chinese scientists unearthed the skeletal remains of the dinosaur, now named Gigantoraptor erlianensis, in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia, China. ...
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The ascent of the dinosaurs to the  throne of the animal kingdom may have been more gradual than  previously believed, scientists said on Thursday.
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Fossilized foot marks left by a big  meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years  ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were  good swimmers, scientists said on Thursday.
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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.