Dinosaurs, as a scientific topic, encompass a diverse clade of archosaurian reptiles (primarily Dinosauria) that dominated terrestrial ecosystems during most of the Mesozoic Era and are central to research in vertebrate evolution, functional morphology, macroecology, and extinction dynamics. Study of dinosaurs integrates skeletal anatomy, phylogenetics, bone histology, biomechanics, ichnology, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction to investigate growth rates, locomotor strategies, trophic networks, and responses to climatic and tectonic changes. Modern research also emphasizes the dinosaur–bird transition, including the evolution of feathers, flight-related adaptations, and metabolic physiology, as well as patterns of diversification and selectivity associated with the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.
In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the BBC revived their landmark series Walking With Dinosaurs, while July saw the release of Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh film in the extinction-proof Jurassic Park franchise.
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A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that these dinosaurs had lost ...
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The mystery surrounding dozens of small dinosaur fossils has finally been solved. Remains previously thought to belong to miniature armored dinosaurs are actually baby ankylosaurs, offering scientists new insight into how ...
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Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from fossils and other analysis are displayed in museums, educational materials, and media, lending ...
The fossil called "Medusa" could be a dinosaur mummy—the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years old that researchers believe contains a significant amount of skin and tendon tissue.
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There's a new dinosaur species on the block. An international team, including a biologist from Penn State Lehigh Valley, discovered that a 75-million-year-old fossil classified as a different dinosaur is its own massive, ...
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For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a separate species or simply a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex? A new paper published in Science has definitively ...
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Picture a baby Brachiosaurus the size of a golden retriever, hunting for food with its siblings while dodging predators that would happily eat it. Meanwhile, its parents—towering over 40 feet tall—are dozens of miles away, ...
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A fossil site in Bolivia preserves thousands of traces of dinosaurs who walked, ran, and swam along an ancient coastline, according to a study by Raúl Esperante of the Geoscience Research Institute, California, U.S., and ...
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An analysis of a unique looping trail of ancient footprints in the United States reveals the dinosaur which made it may have been limping.
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