Research led by scientists associated with the American Museum of Natural History suggests that the giant reptiles of the age of the dinosaurs were descendants of a very tiny ancestor, shedding light ...

Feathered dinosaurs were annoyed by tiny pests that are still familiar to many schoolchildren -- and their horrified parents -- today: lice. Scientists discovered previously unknown tiny insects ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known ...

Dinosaurs were not just carnivores or herbivores; they were occasional omnivore too. We often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems ...

Researchers say they have discovered what appears to be the oldest imprint of a prehistoric insect, made while the dragonfly-like creature was still alive. The imprint — found at a rocky outcrop near ...

A new group of creepy-crawly creatures are moving into the Philadelphia Zoo this spring, including a 10-foot-tall stink bug that actually stinks. The new exhibit, Staying Power: Be Distinct or Go ...

“Don’t feed the animals” takes on a completely different tone when the animals are dinosaurs. The Philadelphia Zoo has brought back giant dinosaurs and larger-than-life insects in a new immersive, ...

It had long been avoiding Targets. A gigantic insect from a species that once flourished in the age of the dinosaurs was found for the first time in decades on the façade of an Arkansas Walmart, ...

A group of Jurassic insects thought to have been parasites of feathered dinosaurs were falsely accused, new research finds. Instead, the tiny creatures were aquatic flies, similar to some still living ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ...