Smithsonian Magazine

This Strange, Feathered Dinosaur May Have Glided Between Trees Like a Flying Squirrel to Hunt Birds 120 Million Years Ago

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...
Science Daily

This four-winged dinosaur may have terrorized Earth's earliest birds

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur called Jian changmaensis may be the missing predator responsible for mysterious piles ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A new long-necked dinosaur from Brazil was a close cousin of a European species

A massive long-necked dinosaur unearthed during construction-site monitoring in Northeast Brazil has turned out to be one of ...
African Times on MSN

Chinese scientists discover new species of feathered dinosaur

The discovery helps shed light on the origins of modern birds Chinese scientists have discovered a new species of feathered ...

6 Funny Dinosaur Facts That Prove Prehistory Had a Sense of Humor

Movies like Jurassic Park portray dinosaurs as fierce, dangerous creatures. While some dinosaurs were huge carnivores with ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2025, From Preserved Blood Vessels to the Return of a Short King

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details about the enormous reptiles that once roamed the Earth Newly discovered ...
EurekAlert!

Researchers devise dinosaur classification method

What do you get when you cross Carcharodontosaurus with Majungatholus? Good luck telling the two apart. Owing to paltry numbers of whole specimens that fail to illuminate a range of intraspecies ...

Four-winged dinosaur: Scientists just found a four-winged dinosaur in northwestern China, and it may be the predator that left behind piles of crushed bird bones

Scientists have discovered a new four-winged dinosaur species, Jian changmaensis, in northwestern China, which may reveal the ...
Nature

Dinosaur biodiversity declined well before the asteroid impact, influenced by ecological and environmental pressures

The question why non-avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago (Ma) remains unresolved because of the coarseness of the fossil record. A sudden extinction caused by an asteroid is the most ...