At the size of a beach ball, the monster-sized Beelzebufo ampinga was the largest frog that ever lived.
Scientists have revealed the immense destructiveness of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The mystery surrounding a dinosaur made up of various mismatched body parts has finally been solved.
A 70-ton titanosaur has been officially established as the largest land animal ever to walk the Earth.
Dinosaurs equipped with spikes and bony plates may have also employed camouflage to avoid predators.
Contrary to the plot of Jurassic Park, a rampaging Tyrannosaurus rex wouldn't actually move very fast.
Palaeontologists have been studying the remains of a crocodile-like land predator from the Jurassic era.
A mass extinction event 200 million years ago made it possible for the dinosaurs to dominate the planet.
The idea that Tyrannosaurus rex had a thick plumage of feathers has been called in to serious doubt.
The incredibly well-preserved hatchling is believed to date back 99 million years to the Cretaceous Era.
The prehistoric carnivore was capable of exerting 8,000 pounds of force with its huge gaping jaws.
Scientists have been drilling in to the crater left behind by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Far from being a modern phenomenon, antibiotic-resistant microbes have existed for millions of years.
A fossil found in China has finally been formally identified after more than a quarter of a century.
An extremely rare fossil belonging to an ancient predatory dinosaur has been found in a mine in Morocco.
One of the largest ever species of plant-eating dinosaur has been discovered at a museum in Switzerland.
Discovered near Foshan in the southeast of the country, the eggs date back over 70 million years.
The giant two-legged carnivores of the Cretaceous had more than just big teeth and jaws in their arsenal.
Scientists have identified a site containing thousands of footprints from 21 different dinosaur species.
A major shakeup of the dinosaur family tree has suggested that they may have originated in the UK.