In the blockbuster "Jurassic World", actor Chris Pratt joins forces with a pack of swift and lethal velociraptors. "Velociraptor belongs to a group of predatory dinosaurs called the deinonychosaurs,…

Jurassic World brings to life the fantasy of an amusement park where genetically engineered dinosaurs are the main attraction, as first imagined in the original book, then movie Jurassic Park back in…

I dissected a Tyrannosaurus rex in front of television cameras. That may be the most surreal sentence I’ve ever written. So let me explain. I’m part of a team that built a life-sized model of…

A new fossil hominid species has been discovered in the site of Woranso-Mille in the central region of Afar, in Ethiopia. The new species is named Australopithecus deyiremeda and consists of the…

Understanding extinct species diets requires greater understanding of the relationship between skull biomechanics and animals ancestry than previously thought, according to a new study.  The…

Stegosaurus, a large, herbivorous dinosaur with two staggered rows of bony plates along its back and two pairs of spikes at the end of its tail, lived roughly 150 million years ago during the Late…

A new species of bird called Llallawavis scagliai (Scaglia's Magnificent Bird) is shedding light on the diversity of the group and how these giant extinct predators interacted with their environment…

A new analysis of the long-necked dinosaur family tree says Apatosaurus excelsus is oh so wrong and Brontosaurus is oh so right. Just like a hundred plus years ago. In 1879, paleontologist Othniel…

What do butterflies, spiders and lobsters share in common? Yawunik kootenayi, a marine creature with two pairs of eyes and prominent grasping appendages that lived 250 million years before the first…

The earliest known record of the genus Homo dates to between 2.8 and 2.75 million years ago, according to an international team. Hominins are the group of primates that include Homo sapiens --…