Dinosaur News

The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more dexterous hunter and tugged at prey more like a modern-day falcon.

Some western Queensland projects have received funding under the third round of the Regional Development Australia Fund but others have missed out.

Shaggy-haired city hipster and Tumblr founder David Karp yesterday had two words for the $1.1 billion cash sale of his popular blogging site to Yahoo! The 26-year-old wunderkind, who grew up on the Upper West Side strolling the Museum of Natural History and sketching dinosaur bones, posted a message - where else? - on Tumblr to calm his users' ... (more)

It is not uncommon to come across claims of fossils being found in layers where we would not expect them to be, with combinations of animals from different geological eras coming together.

WHEN something has a 10 million price tag, it's only fair to assume it's going to be pretty special.

Being the first ever to examine a dinosaur fossil long buried in sedimentary rock is thrilling enough for a field researcher.

A new study conducted at the University of Bristol and published online today in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology sheds light on how the brain and inner ear developed in dinosaurs.

Get ready to "Dig into Reading" all summer at the library for our summer reading theme.

Scientists compare it to the one that killed off the dinosaurs. But, before you start scrambling for the next shuttle flight off this planet, rest assured: It will not strike Earth.

An increase in visitors at the Virginia Museum of Natural History is being attributed largely to the popularity of two dinosaur-themed exhibits.

The following items and postings were found on Craigslist for the Elmhurst, Wheaton and Glen Ellyn area.

Having grown up in Dallas, I rarely thought of the city as a getaway destination, even though I've lived my adult life just 40 miles to the west in Fort Worth.

When Mongolia's most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex , returns to the Asian country on May 18, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them.

Paul Willis was leading a tour of fossil sites in western Queensland and poking around an old quarry when he stumbled upon a fossilised vertebra of an elasmosaur, the long-necked marine , which lived 100 million years ago.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge reports they are keeping an eye out for an asteroid reportedly 1.7 miles long, one big enough to cause the dinosaurs\' extinction if it ever connected with the planet.

Asheville artist John Payne dreamed of bringing dinosaurs to life, and he worked for years to create metal dinosaur skeletons that, with the help of lever and pulley systems, move just as the living beasts might have.

A university study into the incubation behavior of modern birds is shedding new light on the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors.

Museum Victoria's Discovery program is a mobile service that provides access to Museum Victoria's collections for four-year-old kindergarten groups who may find it difficult to visit one of the museum's venues.

Gina Johnson Morris, owner of Radish Underground, holds a 65 million-year-old fossilized Triceratops jaw bone she made into a pendant.

Somebody will probably be shouting that a lot this weekend as St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church celebrates its 21st annual Greek Festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the church grounds at 608 S. College Road.