BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 22 (UPI) --The body and skull shapes of the most iconic dinosaurs weren't entirely original. Dinosaurs took on shapes that were easily recognized in the proportions of their ...

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

Iconic dinosaur shapes were present in animals for at least 100 million years before dinosaurs themselves actually appeared. “Triopticus is an extraordinary example of evolutionary convergence between ...

Large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets so they could have stronger bites, a new study suggests. Although the eye socket is just a hole in the ...

The skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in museum collections, illustrates that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth. The skull of a ...

About 1,000 students from the Illinois Math and Science Academy, Neuqua Valley High School, Plainfield High School and Bloom Trail High School were held spellbound Wednesday as paleontologist John ...

Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least a hundred million years on our planet in animals before those dinosaurs themselves actually appeared. Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least ...