Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.

Dinosaurs may have buddied up with other species of dinosaur for safety reasons, say scientists after unexpectedly spotting tracks that suggest different kinds may have once walked side by side.

New research published in the Royal Science Open Society indicated scientists may have found a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur in South Africa dating back nearly 200 million years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 200 million-year-old slab of rock has been found to have 66 fossilized dinosaur footprints from the Early Jurassic. The rock was ...

Scientists have discovered a species of dinosaur that roamed between Australia and Antarctica 113 million years ago. The discovery of Diluvicursor pickeringi, published Thursday in the biological and ...

Two hundred years ago, an English geologist named William Buckland found a fossil unlike anything he’d ever seen. He called it "Megalosaurus" and thought it belonged to a large lizard. Little did he ...

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Scientists are studying two dinosaurs found buried together in prehistoric battle. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is preparing to study a fossil it has held for years — a pair of ...

Beats finding a seashell.

Scientists have discovered the first dinosaur fossils in Saudi Arabia, where prehistoric remains are notoriously hard to find, even if oil isn't. A team of researchers from Sweden, Australia and Saudi ...

Missouri’s official state dinosaur: “Parrosaurus missouriensis.” (Image courtesy: Shutterstock) JOPLIN, Mo. — Like most states in the U.S., Missouri has a complicated geological past. Several times ...