The Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) was once thought to be one of the many extinct trees from the time of the dinosaurs, but ...

From a phylogenetic perspective – how the dinosaur family tree branches over time – it is predicted that ornithischian remains should first appear in the fossil record about 225 million years ago.

With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed molecules from extinct relatives of rhinos and other large mammals, have pushed ...

A 225-million-year-old leg bone from Zambia is helping scientists rethink the size, diversity, and role of early dinosaurs.

Finally, the study reveals that some meat-eating dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor, were wrongly classified on the dinosaur family tree.

Yet the family tree for flightless dinosaurs, which palaeontologists began to construct with the discovery of the first dinosaur fossil in 1840, is still pretty patchy.

The so-called Frankenstein dinosaur is the missing link connecting plant-eating dinosaurs such as the Stegosaurus to a group including carnivorous ones such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, scientists ...

And it even seemed possible that they were from another, previously unknown branch of the dinosaur family tree. The mystery continued until 1993, when a new dinosaur dated to between 125 and 113 ...

Stock image: An artist's rendering of several dinosaur species. Researchers have discovered three dinosaur track sites from around 150 million years ago that contain dozens of preserved footprints.

The dinosaur skeletons, found hidden in a museum collection in Mongolia, ... New species of dinosaur discovered that 'rewrites' T.rex family tree. Image source, Masato Hattori.

New species of dinosaur discovered that 'rewrites' T.rex family tree Image source, Masato Hattori Image caption, An artist's impression of Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly discovered ...