Even for people of advanced years (like me), the past can seem slippery and far away. For the very young — who have so little past to reckon with — it’s an even more difficult thing to grasp. Last ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a ...

Pay tribute to our favorite reptiles with trivia, books and much more. Alert the little paleontologist in your household: It will soon be International Dinosaur Day! Though the big day takes place on ...

Tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t always the king of the dinosaurs. Before they became towering predators, tyrannosaurs started out much smaller, and a newly discovered fossil is helping fill the gap between ...

More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the equator in what is now Wyoming. That small but mighty dinosaur is changing ...

Just a few fossil fragments of a tiny creature discovered thousands of miles north of its contemporaries have shaken our understanding of global dinosaur history. "It was basically the size of a ...

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Allosaurus Riley Black - Science Correspondent Dinosaurs thrived on our ...