The Jurassic period was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush vegetation and abundant life. Many new dinosaurs emerged—in great numbers. Above, Dimorphodon reptiles fly over a ...

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The Dinosaur National Monument was established in 1915, during ongoing excavations by the Carnegie Museum. The Carnegie ...

For a place named Dinosaur, it’s been a while since the small Colorado town revealed any actual fossils. But after a 101 year ...

Six months ago, a team of paleontologists investigated a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, that had some unusual bumps in its floor. The bumps, as it turns out, constitute about 200 dinosaur footprints ...

A dinosaur was discovered beneath the parking lot at the monument’s most-visited attraction. It’s the first excavation in ...

Recent parking lot construction at Dinosaur National Monument has uncovered fossils of a long-necked dinosaur on the ...

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 ...

This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea. The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the ...

More than 200 dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic period have been found in an active quarry in Oxfordshire.

Many dinosaurs in the movies existed millions of years apart in real life. The final installment in the "Jurassic Park" series hits theaters Thursday, 29 years after the first movie stomped on the big ...