Dinosaur fossils discovered in China set to make US debut Friday at Cincinnati museum. Dinosaur fossils, including a rib more than 9 feet long from a species of the long-necked titanosaur family, are making their North American debut Friday at a Cincinnati museum.

Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of an ancient, mammal-like crocodile that knew how to chew, something its modern gash-and-gulp cousins cannot do.

Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of an ancient, mammal-like crocodile that knew how to chew, something its modern gash-and-gulp cousins cannot do.

Nearly year after being shuttered, Detroit Children's Museum reopening with revamped exhibits. The Detroit Children's Museum, which was shuttered last year amid cost-cutting by the city's school district, has reopened with revamped exhibits, a new preschool area and more of its thousands of artifacts on display.

A group of US paleontologists said Friday it has unearthed a new species of dinosaurs standing some six feet tall and weighing up to 4.5 tonnes, with the longest horns of all.

A surprise find of three skull bones in western Hungary has prompted palaeontologists to rethink the story of horned dinosaurs, a clan that includes triceratops, the mighty prong-headed dino that is a favourite children's toy.

New technology developed by US researchers should shed light on whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded animals, a study released Monday said.

LONDON (Reuters) - The earliest birds did not have strong enough feathers to take to the air by flapping their wings and were gliders at best, researchers said Thursday.

Early bird may get the worm, but didn't fly all that well, scientists say. The early bird ? didn't fly very well.

Chicago's Field Museum cleans Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton Sue for exhibit's 10th anniversary. One of the world's most famous dinosaurs is getting a cleaning before the celebration of her 10th anniversary begins at Chicago's Field Museum.

Dinosaur footprints up to 1.2 meters (four feet) in diameter have been found in an area of Patagonia known as Argentina's "Jurassic Park," a scientist said Wednesday.

Researchers have located chemical remains of the oldest known bird, Archaeopteryx, in a landmark development for paleontology while studying fossils recovered 150 years ago, a new study released Monday found.

The usual heavy metal fan may not be a five-year-old girl in pigtails, but she is typical of hardcore following of Hevisaurus, a metal band that has hooked the kiddie crowd in Finland.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia scientists have found evidence that Tyrannosaur dinosaurs stalked southern hemisphere continents, with the discovery of a hip bone fossil of a small T.Rex in the south of the country.

Tyrannosaurus rex, once believed to have only roamed the Earth north of the Equator, may also have lived in the southern hemisphere, paleontologists said Thursday.

Fossil of T. rex ancestor found in Australia, first such find in Southern Hemisphere. A foot-long piece of bone unearthed in Australia is the first evidence that ancestors of the mighty T. rex once lived in the Southern Hemisphere.

It had a body the size of a sheep, a long neck and tail, and lived some 185 million years ago. Scientists call this dinosaur find "a rare skeleton of a new species."

Utah sandstone yields surprise, new dinosaur species from 185 million years ago. A new species of dinosaur has emerged from the rocks of southern Utah.

Expensive piece of dung: Swiss designer creates watch made from fossilized dinosaur droppings. A Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with an expensive timepiece that eschews the trade's standard gold, diamond or titanium fittings for a more earthy substance ? dinosaur dung. Vesenaz, Switzerland-based company Artya says the watch set in fossilized feces will sell for 12,000 ($11,290) and comes with a strap made with skin from an American cane toad.

Bang went the asteroid, and dinosaurs died worldwide, scientists reaffirm. An all-star panel of researchers says it was the crash of a giant asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs.