Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn’t be ...

A sweeping narrative scientific history that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy. Print run 75,000. "The dinosaurs ...

For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the ...

An artist's depiction of two sauropodomorphs in a wet Early Jurassic environment, eating the newly evolved plants. Marcin Ambrozik Prehistoric poop is full of secrets. Now, one of those secrets—the ...

New York — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago. Researchers aren't sure whether dinosaurs ...

Dinosaurs evolved from a group of reptiles called archosaurs (“ruling reptiles”) around 240–250 million years ago. This was during the Triassic period. This branch of the tree of life gave rise to ...