When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...

Some of the roads that we drive every day follow the routes of much older trails. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Oh, I've heard about this, Leila. People say Broadway in New York City follows an old trail, for ...

How do scientists study the behavior of dinosaurs, who died 65 million years ago? After all, dinosaur fossils are rare enough as it is, and most are fragments and difficult to work with. This is ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds?

Dinosaur fossils that appear to belong to the same species have been found on different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. It raises the question - how did they get there? For ...

When it comes to dinosaur extinction, the working idea is what’s called the bolide impact. This is the hypothesis that a meteorite came to the surface of the Earth, hit the Earth and led to the ...

How and when did dinosaurs first emerge and spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago? That question has for decades been a source of debate among paleontologists faced with fragmented ...

Exactly how did birds evolve from dinosaurs? It’s a mystery that has been with us for more than 150 years, and palaeontologists are still hunting for pieces of the puzzle today. Among them is the ...

Anyone who recently saw Jurassic World Rebirth—or any of the previous six movies in the franchise—has likely wondered how dinosaurs got so big. “Oh boy, I don’t think there’s one answer to that ...