7+ hour, 28+ min ago   (1018+ words) Estimated read time: 7-8 minutes There's just something about dinosaurs that captivates people of all ages. It seems like every little kid goes through a dino phase, complete with plastic figurines, lunch boxes, backpacks and any other thunder lizard-themed merchandise available....

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (720+ words) WASHINGTON — Everyone knows dinosaurs got really big. Some of the long-necked plant-eaters were the largest land animals ever on Earth, as shown by Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 to 90 tons and upwards of ​100 feet long. But how about tiny dinosaurs, like the size…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (856+ words) SYDNEY — If you happen to be right-handed, you may be able to trace the origins of that trait to a wormlike animal that lived about 550 million years ago and had a tendency to bend to the right. Spriggina floundersi appeared…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (633+ words) BEIJING — A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what's now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about an unusual group of predatory dinosaurs known as microraptors. The location where the fossil was unearthed adds to the known geographical range of the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (717+ words) Scientists may have finally solved the riddle of Tyrannosaurus rex's small arms, which have always stood out as the oddest feature in the mightiest of dinosaurs, prompting jokes and a century-plus debate on their purpose and evolutionary history. At about…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (784+ words) CHINA — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature "arms." A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat "holdfast" discs for anchoring to the seafloor. Newfound fossils from a site in southwestern China, preserved in exquisite detail,…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (497+ words) WASHINGTON — It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group ​of dinosaurs called sauropods that included the largest land animals ever…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (791+ words) Nestled in the scenic Big Horn Basin of Wyoming, the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis offers something very few places in the world can: Experiencing the thrill of a real dinosaur dig. The Wyoming Dinosaur Center blends world-class paleontology with…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (742+ words) NIAMEY, Niger — At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shaped head crest ​and jaws bearing interlocking…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (188+ words) DINOSAUR, Colo. — Paleontologists removed new dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site at Utah's Dinosaur National Monument on Friday. The National Park Service reported that the fossils were identified on Sept. 16, 2025, when construction crews removed a portion of the…...