A fossilized dinosaur egg has unearthed secrets hidden for millions of years. Inside, a perfectly preserved embryo shows a ...
A large bird, possibly an emu or ostrich, spotted wandering along a road, has been rescued by police and returned to its ...
A newly reported fossil of an oviraptorid embryo, nicknamed Baby Yingliang, provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ...
When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists ...
Fossils provide scientists with a few clues about how dinosaurs mated, had sex, and reproduced, but much is still left to the ...
Ask just about any paleontologist, and he or she will tell you that life found a way and that some dinosaurs survived the mass extinction. That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining ...
Megalosaurus was a theropod, a class of dinosaurs that were ancestrally carnivorous, bipedal and characterized by hollow, bird-like bones and three toes with claws. Think T-Rex and Velociraptor.
The wonderful Internet explains that scientists believe that modern birds evolved from a specific kind of dinosaur called Theropods. This is the family that includes Tyrannosaurus Rex and ...
There was a lot of luck as to which Cretaceous creatures made it through, but some features were definitely an advantage.
But for Jingmai O’Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. “If you looked at an artist’s reconstruction of something like Velociraptor or Microraptor or a small feathered ...