Did this dinosaur inspire dragon myths? — -- Here's a dinosaur that really knows how to stick its neck out above the rest. Called the "dragon of Qijiang," for the Chinese city in which the fossil ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur which had metre-long spikes sticking out from its neck. The species, called Spicomellus afer, lived 165 million years ago, and is the oldest ...

An analysis of a unique looping trail of ancient footprints in the United States reveals the dinosaur which made it may have been limping. The site near Ouray in Colorado is one of the most continuous ...

Scientists have reconstructed the most complete and lifelike profile of Edmontosaurus annectens thanks to an extraordinary ...

Since the late 1800s, experts have thought that the long-necked dinosaurs known as sauropods were herbivores. Given the flat shape of their small teeth and the giant size of their bodies—which were ...

“It’s the smoking gun, or the steaming guts,” said a paleontologist from a team that also found that the sauropods didn’t chew their food. By Kate Golembiewski In the movie “Jurassic Park,” a ...

Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who writes articles on space, ancient humans, animals, and sustainability, and manages the Planet Earth column of the print issue. View Full ...

Even the reconstructed specimen slated to go on display at the museum this fall is not a single dinosaur but combines parts from two or more individuals of the same species found at the site. The ...