Dinosaurs are one of the universal interests that most toddlers and young children share. While some kids are only interested for a little while, others carry the obsession into childhood, the teenage ...

Warm up: skip around the space, then freeze as a statue of an explorer. Explore the dinosaur gallery: pairs – stepping and shining torches. Look at the dinosaur exhibits: in two groups – as ...

The dinosaurs are hungry, but do you know what type of food they like to eat? In this quiz you can learn which dinosaurs are herbivores (they eat plants), carnivores (they eat meat) and omnivores ...

Nobu Tamura via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 From the time Struthiomimus was first described in 1917, paleontologists have been struck by the dinosaur’s similarities to flightless birds like emus.

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific ...

NOVA: How long can crocs remain submerged, and how do they manage it? Ross: It's a tradeoff between what they're doing and how cold or warm it is. Maximum time seems to be on the order of an hour ...

Dinosaurs are one of the most successful groups of animals to have roamed the planet. For over 170 million years they dominated the land, from small creatures just a few feet long to some of the ...

A study mapping how dinosaurs spread across the world shows they may have been a victim of their own success. UK researchers believe they were already in decline before the killer asteroid hit ...

Faced with an evolving group of competing organisms -- the mammals -- perhaps dinosaurs were driven to extinction by competition. Packs of small mammals would have competed with dinosaurs for food.

In 1993, Steven Spielberg's film Jurassic Park defined dinosaurs for an entire generation. It has been credited with inspiring a new era of palaeontology research. But how much science was built ...