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Have you ever wanted to meet a dinosaur, or have one as a pet? Well, a recent social media post made the case that someone authentically captured video footage of one of the creatures swimming. A ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the ...

A new Spinosaurus fossil has revealed that this gigantic predatory dinosaur was a proficient swimmer. The first fossil of the creature’s tail has been discovered, revealing large spines that indicate ...

What if the giant sail-backed Spinosaurus wasn't actually a swimming dinosaur at all? Despite some scientists' impressions of the dinosaur, as well as the way it is portrayed in Jurassic Park 3, the ...

An international research team that includes two Harvard professors has determined that the Spinosaurus is the first known swimming dinosaur, according to a study published Wednesday in the ...

Littlefoot. Loch Ness monster. Dino from The Flintstones. We're so used to seeing long-necked dinosaurs and other scaly creatures in popular culture. The cartoons and cultural characters are loosely ...

Sauropods, sometimes dubbed "thunder-lizards", were the largest animals ever to walk the Earth. Four powerful legs supported a massive body, a long neck, and a small head. So the discovery in Texas of ...

Scientists recently discovered the first non-avian theropod dinosaur with a streamlined body similar to that of penguins, auks and other modern diving birds. When you purchase through links on our ...

Matteo Fabbri’s happy place is halfway up a steep hill of earth and rocks in the Sahara Desert. There, beneath the broiling Moroccan sun and tons of burnt-orange dirt, are the fossilized remains of a ...

If you think back to most of Hollywood’s dinosaur-based films, then you’ll probably remember that the bulk of dinosaurs depicted were land-dwellers, and that an even smaller number of those dinosaurs ...