Rex, but it has feathers! Meet the Cryolophosaurus, the oldest known tetanuran and the only specimen from the Early Jurassic Period. This giant tetrapod dinosaur had a characteristic bizarre crest on ...

This post was originally published on March 24, 2011] Giant bunnies are not scary. MGM learned that the hard way with the ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Last month we featured footage of an enormous, dinosaur-like shoebill that had landed on a tour boat in Uganda and was photographed in a way that made the striking bird appear even larger. “We were ...

If you’ve seen the viral video of the large shoebill bird landing on a boat in Africa’s Mabamba Swamp, you might be asking yourself if such a prehistoric-looking, seemingly giant bird could be real.

In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

His expeditions, including many to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, yielded rare findings and led to exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History. By Richard Sandomir Mark Norell, a ...

“Terror birds” were giant, flightless, meat-eating creatures that roamed what is now South America for millions of years. As their threatening name suggests ...

Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that might have chirped like a bird, a finding that suggests the evolutionary origins of birdsong may be far more ancient than we previously thought. In a paper ...

About 13 million years ago in a vast South American wetland, colossal predators clashed. The fossilised bone from an enormous flightless bird found in Colombia shows tooth marks made by a giant caiman ...

One day in the Middle Miocene epoch, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1. Andres Link at the University of ...

With each new discovery in paleontology, we are gradually moving away from the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by the Jurassic Park series. One of the most striking shifts has been ...