Feathered dinosaurs were first reported in the 1990s, but many mysteries remain about how and when feathers emerged.

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived around 150 million years ago and had a short tail like those of modern bi ...

One branch of theropods were giants in South America while another filled smaller niches, but in Australia they reversed ...

Learn more about the discovery of megaraptorid and carcharodontosaur fossils that shake up Australia’s Cretaceous predatory ...

Paleontologists have uncovered fossils of not one, but two apex predator groups coexisting in ancient Victoria, Australia.

The specimen offers compelling evidence that behaviors critical for hatching in modern birds may have originated much earlier in the evolutionary lineage of non-avian theropods. Preserved in ...

DINOSAUR hunters have made a spectacular discovery which sheds new light on a giant “mega raptor” that stalked the Earth 120 ...

No alternative hypothesis has been offered to explain the multiple similarities between birds and theropods, however, and there is scant evidence to support a link to any of the other animals that ...

Tinier theropods may have found it easier to adapt to different resources—such as habitats or prey—than their larger kin. “It would ...

Over 100 million years ago, Australia's dinosaurs shared links with South America's due to the continents' connection through ...

SYDNEY, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Australian paleontologists have discovered the first fossil evidence of a predatory dinosaur species that roamed the continent over 100 million years ago.