Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores—but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

Lumbering, long-necked dinosaurs frequented the same watering hole as their predators some 167 million years ago, a scientific study of dinosaur footprints found. The footprints at what is now the ...

How did large carnivorous dinosaurs like Megalosaurus and Torvosaurus, which appeared in the Jurassic period, hunt, and why ...

The earliest known dinosaur fossils are at least 230 million years old, and by 200 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated global ecosystems. Reconstructing food webs using fossil evidence of feeding ...

You are what you eat, it turns out—even if your last meal was 150 million years ago. While the grub itself may be long gone, a record of dinosaurs' favorite foods has been stowed away in their ancient ...

A worker digging up clay in an English limestone quarry discovered a “dinosaur highway” made up of 200 tracks dating back 166 million years. The Oxfordshire footprints include a mix of footprints from ...

Dinosaurs took 30 million years to become dominant Other animals initially ruled the Triassic landscape Feces fossils show some herbivores ingested charcoal New research that relied heavily on ...

The Jurassic period was a golden age when dinosaurs truly dominated the Earth. Giant sauropods walking through vast ...

An excavation at a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire in the U.K. has yielded a massive, downright prehistoric find—not one, not dozens, but hundreds of footprints left behind by dinosaurs of the Middle ...

There are a few factors that make one Jurassic Park dinosaur more daunting than another, from the creature’s size to its speed and intelligence. The least threatening tend to be herbivores or ...