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Covering of feathers left them able to cope when other creatures died off in mass extinction event, scientists say

‘Exceptionally-preserved’ fossil has allowed scientists to document scales, tail bristles, and first-ever dinosaur cloaca

It’s not often New Zealanders admit Australia is onto a good thing. Our long-running trans-Tasman rivalry usually revolves around accusing Australians of stealing national cultural icons like Phar Lap, Pavlova or Crowded House.

Almost 30 years after Jurassic Park first screened, the beloved franchise is back with its latest film Jurassic World Dominion, released in the UK on Friday. Our favourite characters, such as the Tyrannosaurus-rex and Velociraptor, return and we meet some new ones, like the giant predator Giganotosaurus.

Steve Brusatte writes of the evolutionary twists, catastrophes and luck that led to the warm-blooded animals of today

Palaeontologists said they have found parts of the skeleton of the dinosaur, which lived during the Cretaceous Period

The renowned Apple Bay fossil locality of northern Vancouver Island is helping us reimagine seed plant diversity in the Early Cretaceous, the last of three geologic periods comprising the Mesozoic Era.

A permanent virtual exhibit of one of France’s most famous prehistoric sites, the undersea Cosquer Cave, is set to open its doors as concerns grow that it could be completely inundated as a result of rising tides driven by climate change. As of Saturday, visitors to the port city of…

In a new study, researchers used a relatively novel set of laser-based techniques to measure the metabolic rates of dinosaurs.

The 85ft-long plaster cast of a diplodocus skeleton was first put on display in the London museum in 1905.

Scientists in Switzerland have discovered two previously unknown dolphin species that inhabited the area of today’s landlocked mountainous country 20 million years ago.