A small dinosaur discovered in western India is changing the story of when some of the most successful sauropod groups began ...

A peculiar fossil of a long-necked reptile unearthed in India has pushed back the timeline of the popular colossal dinosaur ...

A newly identified bird from the Late Jurassic is helping fill one of the biggest gaps in bird evolution. Named Zhengheornis buyu, the tiny species had a shortened tail without the fused tailbone seen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists work at the place where the fossilized bones of the Stegouros elengassen were found, a newly identified armored ...

A Jurassic fossil dating back 150 million years fills in a vital part of the evolutionary puzzle of how birds took to the ...

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BEIJING — The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists. Xing Lida, a Chinese paleontologist found the specimen ...

Diplodocids—large herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails—may have been able to move their tails like bullwhips at speeds of up to 33 meters per second (more than 100 kilometers per hour), ...

Chilean paleontologists on Wednesday presented their findings on a dinosaur discovered three years ago in Patagonia which they said had a highly unusual tail that has stumped researchers The remains ...

Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists reported Wednesday. Some dinosaurs had spiked tails they could use as ...

Apatosaurus had a 50-foot-long tail. (National Park Service Illustration / Bob Walters / Tess Kissinger) The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long ...

Diplodocids were a family of dinosaurs with long necks and, often, even longer tails — some species’ tails reached 50 feet in length. They were wide-ranging, but especially flourished in what’s now ...