Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx, known as the Thermopolis specimen, has bones that are preserved in three ...

No one’s quite sure how the shoebill stork is related to other birds since ... is believed to have existed at the same time as the dinosaurs, some 225 million years ago. Today, the tuatara ...

Andy has travelled back in time over 250 million years to the time off the dinosaur! Play Andy's Dinosaur Adventure game to find dinosaurs, complete challenges and collect all the badges.

Do you know all the dinosaurs that Andy saw on his adventures? Ask a grown-up to help you to play this fun quiz and test your dino knowledge! What information do we collect from this quiz?

It’s an unlikely relationship, but the humble pigeon is a descendant of the group of dinosaurs that also includes the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. The two species share a remarkable biological past. Our ...

It is one of the greatest puzzles in paleontology. For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs dominated Earth. They were so successful that other animal groups -- mammals included -- had little ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs has been a hotly debated topic for decades, and whether it was an asteroid, a volcanic eruption or even poisonous plant species. But researchers have found hard ...

Learning more about emus is all well and good, but van Bijlert hopes that the research can also inform scientists’ understanding of birds’ long-lost ancestors, dinosaurs. He suspects that in ...

In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher, the primate of the Church of Ireland, finished his painstaking study of the Old Testament and concluded that the world had been created in 4004 B.C.—on the ...

Dinosaurs are one of the most successful groups of animals to have roamed the planet. For over 170 million years they dominated the land, from small creatures just a few feet long to some of the ...