Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards -- and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ...

(Correction appended: Oct. 26, 2012) In 2008, a fossil hunter named Frank Hadfield went for a walk among the hoodoos of Drumheller, Alberta. Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the ...

Scientists in Chile’s Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated the area’s food chain ...

(WSVN) - Scientists uncovered the remains of Megaraptors in Patagonia, Chile. These large carnivores roamed the earth more than 70 million years ago. According to the Journal of South American Earth ...

A new analysis of the bite strength of 18 species of carnivorous dinosaurs shows that while the Tyrannosaurus rex skull was optimized for quick, strong bites like a crocodile, other giant, predatory ...

It has long been known that some of the earliest mammals coexisted with the later-period dinosaurs. Now, for just the second time ever, scientists have documented fossil evidence of a dinosaur having ...

“Of the giant carnivore dinosaurs, T. rex is the one we know the most about because it has a pretty good fossil record,” Rowe says. There are many complete skulls which have already been scanned and ...