One question asked frequently by undergraduates to Kevin Padian stuck with him: Why are the arms of Tyrannosaurus rex so ridiculously short.

Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the rise of dinosaurs through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.

A fossil discovery from Scotland has provided new information on the early evolution of lizards, during the time of the dinosaurs.

For over two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian has been frequently asked one question by undergraduates that stuck with him.

New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that it shook the planet for weeks to months.

Determining what killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period has long been the topic of debate.

Discovery sheds light on the Tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted.

The skeleton — incredibly, mostly intact — was first found by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences.

Harvard researchers find rapid evolution of reptiles was triggered by nearly 60 million years of global warming and climate change.

An exceptional prehistoric site discovery containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field.

Researchers have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long.

Scientists have described the youngest therizinosaur fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments.

One of the most exciting moments of the new Jurassic Park sequel, Jurassic World Dominion, is when Quetzalcoatlus swoops down from the sky.

One fateful day some 66 million years ago, a 7.5-mile-wide space rock slammed into the Earth ending the age of the dinosaur.

The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago and weighed 80 tons.

Palaeontologists has discovered remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs were able to control the colour of their feathers using melanin.

One big issue in physics education is to generate student enthusiasm for the course material. These dinosaur problems really spark interest.

The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime according to an international team of researchers.

The skeleton of Abditosaurus kuehnei is the most complete titanosaur fossil discovered so far in Europe.

The skull of a newly discovered species of giant ichthyosaur is shedding new light on the marine reptiles’ rapid growth into behemoths.