The odd thing about this little experiment was that it was fundamentally about dinosaurs ... An engraving of the scene created a national sensation in Great Britain. Bone hunters scrambled ...

Prehistoric time line, geologic time scale, photos, facts, maps, and more from National Geographic ... and reptiles. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth in the mighty Mesozoic. And 64 million years after ...

Scientists still debate the purpose of this dinosaur's iconic horns and spiky head plate. Find out what we’ve learned about how Triceratops lived and why it went extinct. Triceratops’ enormous ...

Troodon formosus was a small coelurosaurian dinosaur—a member of the same clade (evolutionary group) to which modern birds belong. Fossilized remains have been discovered of nesting parents and ...

Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis was the largest of the pachycephalosaurids—"thick-headed dinosaurs"—which featured extremely thick skullcaps. The top of a Pachycephalosaurus skull could be 9 ...

Discoveries there are casting light on life during the Mesozoic, specifically 130 million to 110 million years ago—a time distinguished by the diversification of dinosaurs, mammals, birds ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a new genus and species of dinosaur with movie-monster looks. Well protectedOsteoderms—bony armor plates—cover ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx, known as the Thermopolis specimen, has ...

This week, host Phil Keoghan meets up with National Geographic Explorer and paleontologist John Foster at an extraordinary dinosaur dig in Utah. The episode airs Monday, November 19, at 10/9c on ...