Here’s how scientists are solving the “dinosaur death pose” mystery and others. This specimen of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx exhibits what paleontologists call the dinosaur death pose or the ...

Researchers have unearthed a giant "warrior" lizard that stalked Brazil 240 million years ago in the Triassic period, just before the dawn of the dinosaurs. The discovery fills in gaps in our ...

One day, Jonathan Losos found himself trying to capture a lizard on a research trip near the Bahamas. He's a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis. JONATHAN LOSOS: It was a wily ...

When paleontologists only have so many clues to infer a fossil’s original form, it’s all too easy to make honest mistakes. Sometimes, supposedly reasonable assumptions set researchers on the wrong ...

A "hook-toothed" reptile that lived in the Scottish Highlands around 167 million years ago fed on early mammals and young dinosaurs, say scientists. The Jurassic predator - one of the oldest fossil ...

AND WE ARE BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY, REPTILES. AND THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO DINOSAURS IN THIS DAY AND AGE. OKAY. AND SO A FAMILY OF SKINKS FOUND THEIR HOME AT THE ORLANDO ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along with about three-quarters of the Earth’s animal species. A new Yale ...

A 5-foot long water monitor that escaped from a home in Webster more than a week ago remains on the loose after it was spotted last week in Connecticut. Water monitors are a type of lizard with sharp ...

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that might have chirped like a bird, a finding that suggests the evolutionary origins of birdsong may be far more ancient than we previously thought. In a paper ...

The skeleton of a dinosaur that once roamed South Jersey is again on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. The fossilized remains of a Hadrosaurus foulkii, also known as ...