We were visiting a dinosaur dig, but there was also a museum ... a specimen is studied and prepared for exhibit at a Chinese museum. Stefen Chow Jingmai O’Connor, an American paleontologist ...

The research, published in the National Science Review, details the discovery of Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis, a new species ...

The dinosaur has been named after the Chinese word ‘Huadan’, meaning the birthday of a great person or a great institution, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's ...

But other Chinese paleontologists were convinced it was a dinosaur. On a visit to Beijing that October, Philip Currie, a paleontologist now at the University of Alberta, saw the specimen and ...

Fossilized footprints of a dinosaur discovered in China were named after Nobita, a friend of the Doraemon robot cat, by a Chinese researcher who is a huge fan of the Japanese manga series.

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 ...

A new dinosaur species has been discovered in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert based on two “exquisitely preserved” long fossil claws, an advance that sheds more light on a less understood family of the giant ...

The local dinosaurs mostly had Chinese names like Huayangosaurus, a relative of the Stegosaurus, but a few were given some very funny names indeed.