However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this ...

The Yixian Formation in northeastern China is a regular treasure trove for paleontologists with its well-preserved fossils.

Long-necked sauropods were a defining group of dinosaurs that dominated every continent during the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...

The fossil filled a 70-million-year gap in the understanding of how the brains of birds evolved: between the 150-million-year ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...

Paleontologist Dave Hone rates the realism of the dinosaur attacks in the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies.

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

The new research suggests that this dinosaur's armor was adapted for fighting between members of Borealopelta markmitchelli.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the ... with some believing that eruptions occurred in waves that buried the dinosaurs under ash or mud. This explanation compared the Yixian fossils ...