Search Results for: Dinosaurs

Open the calendar Use the arrow keys to select a date

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Visit our FAQ page.

1,964 results

1,964 results for: Dinosaurs

  1. Paleontology

    Could Spinosaurus swim? The fierce dinosaur ignites debate

    Researchers are still divided about whether Spinosaurus was a swimmer or a wader. What’s clear is that confirming the first swimming dinosaur would be a game-changer.

    By
  2. Paleontology

    Scotland’s Isle of Skye was once a dinosaur promenade

    New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

    By
  3. Paleontology

    How fast did dinosaurs really go? Birds walking in mud provide new clues

    Tracks of dinosaur footprints can hint at how fast the extinct animals moved. Here’s how guinea fowl can help fact-check those assumptions.

    By
  4. Paleontology

    This exquisite Archaeopteryx fossil reveals how flight took off in birds

    Analyses unveiled never-before-seen feathers and bones from the first known bird, strengthening the case that Archaeopteryx could fly.

    By
  5. Seeking the anomalies that lead to discoveries

    Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the booming online market for semaglutide, new findings on how early humans used sophisticated thinking and whether Spinosaurus could swim.

    By
  6. Life

    Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs

    During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

    By
  7. Paleontology

    ‘Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior’ unearths paleontology’s biases

    Paleontologist David Hone’s latest book fleshes out our understanding of dinosaur behavior.

    By
  8. Paleontology

    These crocodile-like beasts reached the Caribbean, outlasting mainland kin

    Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

    By
  9. Paleontology

    How an ancient marine predator snuck up on its prey

    Serrations at the edges of a fossilized flipper of the ancient marine reptile Temnodontosaurussuggests it may have been able to swim silently.

    By
  10. Life

    A new book explores the evolutionary romance between plants and animals

    Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

    By
  11. Paleontology

    Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago

    A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

    By
  12. Paleontology

    China’s famously rich dinosaur fossil beds get a new origins story

    Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.

    By