_Eoraptor lunensis_ lived roughly 230 million years ago, at a time when dinosaurs were small and rare. Jordan Harris courtesy of Kristi Curry Rogers, CC BY-SA It may be hard to imagine, but once upon ...

If you've ever seen a cut-down tree, you've noticed the rings that mark each year of growth. But those rings don't just show the tree's age. They show how fast the tree grew. A new study took this ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

This article was originally published by Quanta Magazine. When the paleontologist Michael D’Emic cut into the bones of Majungasaurus, a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Madagascar ...

We’ve spent decades looking at dinosaurs through the lens of old museum models and films that basically portrayed them as […] ...