After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land animals. But that does not mean they went unchallenged. In South America ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

And their specimen’s skull is one of the most well-preserved ever excavated. ... Almost all giant, long-necked dinosaurs beyond their earliest evolutionary forms belong to the eusauropod clade.

Finally, an examination of theropod skulls found evidence of small pits along the upper jaws that house nerves and blood vessels to supply lips and gums, structures lacking in crocs.

Crocodiles are some of the most fearsome apex predators on the planet, but this crocodilian ancestor puts our crocs to shame.

A paleontologist has unearthed in Texas an ancient semi-aquatic dinosaur that has a goofy-looking head and skeleton.

More di-non-saurs than dinosaurs. “You may think that an animal is a dinosaur because it’s large and scaly,” paleontologist Danny Barta, then a PhD Candidate at the Richard Gilder Graduate ...

The skin of a 67-million-year-old dinosaur has revealed bites and gashes from an ancient crocodile, and how its flesh was ripped apart may explain why it became mummified.

Fossils Reveal Final Refuge Of Ferocious Land-Living Crocs Until Now, the most recent fossils of sebecids were found in Colombia and dated to about 10.5-12.5 million years ago.

Massive pre-Jurassic reptile had weaker bite than modern crocs Computer recreation of apex predator suggests different feeding habits to dinosaurs as they couldn’t crunch bones ...

These dinosaurs were probably capable of gliding or a rudimentary form of flight, moving through the air before modern birds took wing. We can look to the cochlea for clues to dinosaurs’ hearing.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land animals. In South America, for instance, nightmarish ...