New research suggests dinosaurs may have first appeared between 240 and 250 million years ago, up to 10 million years earlier than the oldest known unambiguous fossils. This revised timeline links ...

What do you get when you cross Carcharodontosaurus with Majungatholus? Good luck telling the two apart. Owing to paltry numbers of whole specimens that fail to illuminate a range of intraspecies ...

New fossil analyses and evolutionary studies suggest dinosaurs may have originated between 240 and 250 million years ago, up to 10 million years earlier than the oldest confirmed specimens. Key to ...

A high-profile paper that reported what was thought to be the remains of the smallest-known bird-like dinosaur has been retracted. New evidence suggests that the specimen, trapped in amber in what is ...