Tyrannosaurus rex was a thrasher, prone to vigorously shaking its powerful, prey-packed jaws from side-to-side like a crocodile. But new simulations reveal Allosaurus was equipped to dismember its prey with a little more decorum, stripping flesh from bone not with the head-swinging motion of a croc, but the meticulous…

Jurassic Park got a lot of things right – driving home the point that birds are dinosaurs, for example. It also got a LOT of things wrong.

Paleontologists from Canada have unveiled a newly identified species of a dog-sized pachycephalosaurs. It’s considered the oldest of its kind ever discovered in North America — and quite possibly the world.

Call it the Sarlacc Pit of the Late Miocene: A recent study by Spanish paleontologists has shown how a nasty cave entrance gobbled-up a disproportionate number of carnivores for an extended period over 9 million years ago.

Four-winged and clad in iridescent black plumage, the dinosaur known as Microraptor is among the most intriguing subjects of paleontological inquiry in recent memory. Now, fossilized guts reveal the crow-sized creature is also one of the few dinosaurs known to have dined on fish. This strange, shiny-feathered reptile

A site in China contains 190-million-year old organic remains from non-avian dinosaurs and dinosaur embryos, and some of the world’s oldest known eggshells, according to a new study.

Apatosaurus on the left cheek, Raptor on the right. Rarely is beard-art this inspired (though it's been known to happen).

An unusual prehistoric fish with fins near its butt has helped to solve the mystery over why most animals, including humans, have paired limbs.

New evidence from the University of Alberta suggests that some terrestrial dinosaurs, including carnivorous theropods, were very capable swimmers.

Othniel Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope are the perfect subjects for a historical comedy. During the infamous "Bone Wars," these rival paleontologists sabotaged each other's expeditions, stole bones, destroyed bones, and wrote scathing reports on each other in scientific journals. Now Steve Carell and James Gandolfini will …