WASHINGTON-In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head became trapped in mud, ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

The dinosaur that welcomes visitors to the Natural History Museum harbors a fascinating history. Researchers have identified a severe bone infection in the dinosaur, which lived around 220 million ...

(CNN) — The fossilized remains of a new species of winged dinosaur have been discovered in southern China by construction workers, who almost destroyed it with dynamite. The fossilized corpse was ...

It started out as a bone sticking out of the mud next to a lake in Thailand — and now scientists say it's the biggest dinosaur ever found in South-East Asia.

An international team has found that equations to determine the speed of a moving dinosaur based on prints in trackways may be inaccurate. In their study published in the journal Biology Letters, the ...

GREENFIELD — Richard D. Little’s armored mud balls have been around for 200 million years, give or take, but the semi-retired geology professor can’t help wondering what will happen to them after he ...

Some 92 million years ago, "Cooper" got stuck in the mud. The slop sealed the fate of the gigantic, long-necked leaf-eating dinosaur, concealing its bones until 2007, when the beast's parts were ...

You've probably left many footprints in mud and sand but the chances they still exist are pretty slim. The same is true for dinosaurs, which is why a 10-year-old's discovery of a set of ...