A new study by a North Carolina paleontologist in Raleigh is being called "the biggest dinosaur discovery of the decade."

A new specimen of one of the most controversial species of dinosaur has the potential to overturn decades of research on the T rex. Nanotyrannus, the “miniature T rex”, has been the centre of one of the fiercest debates in palaeontology.

Gov. Josh Stein announced on Thursday the discovery of a new tyrannosaur species, Nanotyrannus, at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday.

Governor Josh Stein, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and NC State University announced Thursday that the species, Nanotyrannus lancensis, has been definitively identified in the museum’s “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil, overturning a long-held belief that the specimen was simply a juvenile T. rex.

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction.

Argentine scientists reveal Chucarosaurus diripienda, a giant 30-meter titanosaur found in Patagonia that challenges evolutionary theories.

These fine feathers weren't just for show. Scientists have discovered a new kind of airborne dinosaur with extraordinarily long tail feathers that could have helped save the animal from crash landings. An exquisitely detailed fossil excavated in ...

The cast of Patagotitan mayorum weighs 2½ tonnes and was transported in two shipping containers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A new dome-headed dinosaur species was discovered in Montana, a study released this month shows. Researchers discovered the fossils of Brontotholus harmoni, a dome-headed dinosaur in Montana, according to the paper published Oct. 9 in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Dinosaurs are among the most researched prehistoric animals, yet most people carry outdated ideas about them. Films, old textbooks, and childhood museum trips helped lock in images that science has since revised. Thanks to better fossil records and ...

What if everything we know about T. rex growth is wrong? A complete tyrannosaur skeleton has just ended one of paleontology's longest-running debates—whether Nanotyrannus is a distinct species, or just a teenage version of Tyrannosaurus rex.