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Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand. An illustration shows what Duonychus tsogtbaatari might have looked like. Unlike its ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing 18 million years of fossil data, researchers argue that apparent drops ...

Cerapodan dinosaurs were plant eaters and were small compared to other dinosaurs. They hopped around on two legs like modern birds. "Ornithischian" is a term scientists use to describe a type of ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — Footprints of armored dinosaurs with tail clubs have been identified, following discoveries made in the Canadian Rockies. The 100-million-year-old fossilized footprints were ...

In the pantheon of dinosaur royalty, sauropods may have been the biggest and tyrannosaurs the deadliest. But the ceratopsians, ankylosaurs and stegosaurs were the most metal dinosaurs of all.

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A new species of dinosaur found at a Mongolian building site has the largest fully preserved claw ever found. The bipedal, herbivorous animal had only two fingers on each hand, which it may have ...

In 2012, a team of researchers from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences unearthed the fossilized remains of a therizinosaur—a two-legged dinosaur known for its long claws—in the Gobi desert.

This dinosaur-like beast is said to resemble a long-necked, rotund sauropod. It wades through the swamps and rivers of the Congo Basin in Central Africa, the local Bantu people told European ...