Therizinosaurus is proof that dinosaur evolution wasn’t always driven by speed, power, or predation. Instead, this theropod grew massive claws that functioned more like gardening tools than weapons.

Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. He holds his PhD from Rutgers and was a former editor for the ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to ...

New research has identified a dinosaur "mummy zone" in a series of ravines near Lusk, Wyoming. It's produced two mummies of a fleshy dinosaur with back spikes and hooves and scientists believe they ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Jane, the dinosaur fossil housed at Rockford’s Burpee Museum of Natural History, may not be a Tyrannosaurus rex as previously believed. A new discovery suggests Jane, which was ...

For years, the "dueling dinosaurs" in a North Carolina museum were believed to be a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex. However, an article published on October 30 in the journal Nature has a different ...

Researchers labeled the discovery profound because it alters scientific understanding of the dinosaurs. Researchers now identify the "dueling dinosaur" tyrannosaur as an adult Nanotyrannus, not T. rex ...

Move aside, T.Rex – there's a new dinosaur in town! Scientists have confirmed that a skeleton discovered in Montana belongs to a brand new species. Known as Nanotyrannus lancensis, this new dinosaur ...

Once thought to be a baby T. rex, was a separate, agile species that redefines the predator hierarchy of the late Cretaceous. The debate surrounding Nanotyrannus lancensis has been one of paleontology ...

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Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to ...

Paleontologists at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered a new species of dinosaur called nanotyrannus lancensis. The discovery came after studying a fossil called "Dueling ...