The poodle-sized reptile that lived over 200 million years ago was among creatures that had features similar to dinosaurs it lived beside.
The plant-eater Tanyka was a “living fossil” when it stalked the Earth around 275 million years ago.
The "miniscule" new fossil was discovered 500 miles south in Colorado’s Denver Basin.
Horned dinosaurs probably used their noses not just for smelling but also to help control temperature and moisture.
Scientists described the discovery as a "palaeontological Rosetta Stone”.
The "astonishing" first indisputable evidence of a new species of Spinosaurus in over a century was found in a remote desert location.
The adolescent, thought to have been 15–16 years old, was discovered in a cave in Liguria, Italy, in 1942.
The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought.
The largest-ever study of how the “king of dinosaurs” grew shows a much longer, slower path to adulthood than scientists previously thought.
Archaeologists have documented more than 16,000 tracks left by dinosaurs as they walked, ran, and swam along an ancient coastline.
