Spicomellus is a type of ankylosaur - heavily armoured herbivores which had bony skins similar to turtles, and lived from the ...

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds ...

The rise of dinosaurs is one of evolution's most intriguing success stories. Emerging in the mid-Triassic period, their journey to dominance spanned millions of years, marked by environmental ...

In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in ...

Dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their rise was a slow and complicated event, and driven by two mass extinctions, according to new research.

Researchers have found evidence that the evolution of birds is the result of a drastic change in how dinosaurs developed. Scientists have long understood that modern birds descended from dinosaurs ...

The story of dinosaur evolution appears, therefore, to have been driven by three enormous extinctions caused by rapid, traumatic and massive environmental change.