The densely wooded swamps, located along a major ... That’s because today’s birds are the last remaining twig on an otherwise demolished dinosaur family tree, grown from fierce predators ...

Scientists have been working on the origins of dinosaurs for decades. Now, it appears they may be a step closer to ...

For centuries, scientists have been piecing together the evolutionary puzzle of birds, the sole survivors of the dinosaur ... the older family tree model were all located in one specific genomic ...

Maybe you imagine large armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or Stegosaurus. But for Jingmai O’Connor, the dinosaurs she studies – look a lot more like birds. “If you looked at an artist’s ...

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 ...

Dinosaur fossils discovered by paleontologists working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been determined to be ...

The earliest species of dinosaur ... family were described last year and date back about 231 million years. Similarly old fossils have all been unearthed in countries located south of the equator ...

This discovery could help fill the gaps in the dinosaur family tree and provide new insights into their evolution. Study co-author Professor Philip Mannion noted that early dinosaurs were likely ...

Our long winter nights are the perfect time for me to sort through thousands of images of people, places and wildlife that ...

It’s taken more than a decade for them to confirm its rightful place on the dinosaur family tree, but the discovery now is recognized as the world’s ... or many peoples. We reached out to Aaron Bird ...

It might be that palaeontologists haven’t been looking in the right place. By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...