Dinosaurs and mathematics do not seem like an obvious pair, but for one professor they are a logical match. Palaeontologists have now reexamined the classification of a dinosaur bone found in ...

Josh Smith, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has concocted a mathematical scheme for identifying dinosaurs based upon measurements of ...

Chilesaurus gave the scientists evidence to rethink dinosaur classification, providing a link between theropods and ornithischians. For 130 years, dinosaurs have been organized into two groups based ...

What do you get when you cross Carcharodontosaurus with Majungatholus? Good luck telling the two apart. Owing to paltry numbers of whole specimens that fail to illuminate a range of intraspecies ...

A good way to get paleontologists stirred up? Talk about rearranging the 130-year-old dinosaur family tree. A new paper in Nature by scientists at University of Cambridge and the Natural History ...

It’s no longer any mystery that birds and dinosaurs are related. But how close is that relationship? How could the “fearfully great lizards” transform themselves into feathered fliers? The debate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A full-sized model of the Missouri dinosaur Parrosaurus missouriensis. A full-sized model of the Missouri dinosaur Parrosaurus ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On November 24, 1887, naturalist Harry Govier ...

Scientists have identified not only the bones of a new dinosaur in southern Missouri, but also may have found a dinosaur hotbed. The newly identified duck-billed dinosaur, named Parrosaurus ...