Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Anyone that has ever watched Hollywood’s famous Jurassic Park films will know that dinosaurs were large and hungry creatures that spent much of their time scavenging for whatever may have looked like ...

Being referred to as thickheaded isn’t exactly a compliment. Depending on your lifestyle, however, you just might need a skull that can occasionally take a good smack. Consider a carnivorous dinosaur ...

One of the things that really bugs me about the Jurassic Park movies is the prominent role given to Tyrannosaurus rex—a dinosaur that didn’t appear until the ensuing Cretaceous period. I am therefore ...

In a paper published August 23, authors Cameron Pahl and Luis Ruedas, of Portland State University, show that Allosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur from the Jurassic that has long been thought to ...

Allosaurus, the giant Jurassic dinosaur, was a scavenger and not a predator as previously thought, according to a new study that may 'overturn 150 years of established thought'. Measuring up to 40 ...

In middle-of-nowhere Utah, there is a piece of earth more dense with theropod dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period than anywhere else, populated mostly by a predator called Allosaurus that looks ...

With DNA cloning technologies rapidly advancing, could we be on the cusp of bringing extinct animals, like the woolly mammoth, back from extinction? In the 20 years since the release of the film ...