Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life

Travel back millions of years to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth with these articles, photos, and profiles.

  • Raptorex and Psittacosaurus skeletons on display
    The 10 Best Dinosaur Names
  • Dinosaur National Monument in Utah
    Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals by State
  • Triceratops at the National Museum of Natural History
    Famous Horned Dinosaurs That Weren't Triceratops
  • Deinonychus in the act of eating
    10 Facts About Deinonychus, the Terrible Claw
  • Big and Small Toy Dinosaurs
    The 19 Smallest Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals
  • Dinosaur laughs. Unbridled joy.
    The World's Funniest Dinosaur Jokes
  • Mastiff
    The 10 Strongest Bites in the Animal Kingdom
  • 3-D rendering of megalodon eating a blue whale
    Who Would Win a Fight Between Megalodon and Leviathan
  • A robotic dinosaur skeleton made of car parts and drooling oil
    Does Oil Come From Dinosaurs?
  • platyhystrix
    Prehistoric Amphibian Pictures and Profiles
  • baryonyx fossil
    Facts About Baryonyx
  • dunkleosteus
    Dunkleosteus
  • argentinosaurus giganotosaurus
    Giganotosaurus vs. Argentinosaurus: Who Wins?
  • Becklespinax
    The 10 Worst Dinosaur Names
  • pteranodon
    Pteranodon Facts and Figures
  • A Chinese sculpture of a dragon
    The Real Story Behind Dinosaurs and Dragons
  • Artist rendering of a dinosaur soaring in an ancient forest.
    6 Alternative Dinosaur Extinction Theories That Don't Work
  • A pair of velociraptors patrol the shore of an ancient lake looking for their next meal.
    How Velociraptor Was Discovered
  • Enya Kim standing in the jaws of a prehistoric shark Carcharodon megalodon
    10 Things Megalodon Could Swallow Whole
  • The 10 Hardest to Pronounce and Spell Prehistoric Animal Names
  • theodore rex
    The 5 Best (and 5 Worst) Dinosaur Movies Ever Made
  • kaprosuchus boarcroc
    The 10 Best Prehistoric Nicknames
  • An Illustration of the <i>Chaoyangsaurus</i>
    Top 10 Cutest Dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era
  • Hallucigenia
    The 12 Strangest Animals of the Cambrian Period
  • allosaurus stegosaurus
    10 Prehistoric Battles That Could (and Probably Did) Happen
  • Image purportedly of the Loch Ness Monster swimming in Loch Ness on a sunny day.
    Facts, Not Myths, About the Loch Ness Monster
  • Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur roaring
    How Loud Could Dinosaurs Roar?
  • Despite its name, Tetraceratops wasn&#39;t related to the much later Triceratops
    The First Reptiles
  • Barney rubble feeding dino a steak.
    Famous Fictional Dinosaurs
  • Illustration of the dinosaur, Nigersaurus from the side.
    The 10 Ugliest Dinosaurs
  • Brachiosaurus dinosaur
    How Was Brachiosaurus Discovered?
  • Dimorphodon on white background
    Dimorphodon Facts and Figures
  • Dinosaur cartoon
    What Does Your Favorite Dinosaur Say About You?
  • allosaurus
    The Most Important Dinosaurs by Continent
  • pterodactylus flying over a landscape
    Pterodactylus Facts and Figures
  • Artist rendering of an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.
    The Earth's 10 Biggest Mass Extinctions
  • mokele-mbembe
    Is Mokele-Mbembe Really a Dinosaur?
  • "One Million B.C." movie poster featuring a man and swooning woman with prehistoric images in the background.
    32 Quotes From the Best Dinosaur Movie Taglines
  • ark encounter
    Could All the Dinosaurs Have Fit on Noah's Ark?
  • Archaeopteryx
    How Was Archaeopteryx Discovered?
  • volgadraco
    The World's Best Dinosaur Artists
  • A drawing of The Atlas Bear
    Atlas Bear
  • sarcosuchus spinosaurus
    Spinosaurus vs. Sarcosuchus - Who Wins?
  • Illustration representing Tylosaurus in sea
    9 Animals That Ate Dinosaurs
  • A predatory Velociraptor stalking a pair of Protoceratops.
    Protoceratops vs. Velociraptor: Who Would Have Won?
  • Black and white illustration of prehistoric Helicoprion shark with teeth spiralling up into its jaws, late Carboniferous to early Jurassic era
    Helicoprion the Prehistoric Shark
  • Majungasaurus in a barren environment.
    Were Dinosaurs Cannibals?
  • Drawing of dinosaurs around a lake.
    Were Dinosaurs Able to Swim?
  • allosaurus stegosaurus
    Allosaurus vs. Stegosaurus - Who Wins?
  • deinocheirus
    10 Facts About Deinocheirus, the "Terrible Hand" Dinosaur
  • griffin
    10 Mythical Beasts Inspired by Prehistoric Animals
  • Carbonemys
    Carbonemys vs. Titanoboa - Who Wins?
  • A red circle with a line through a drawing of a dinosaur with handguns
    The Biggest Dinosaur Blunders
  • rhamphorhynchus
    Rhamphorhynchus
  • Pencil sketch of a chimera made of multiple animals, artist rendering.
    9 Real Chimeras From the Annals of Paleontology
  • dinosaurABC.png
    A Dinosaur ABC for Curious Kids
  • Beelzebufo ampinga, a frog from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, pencil drawing, digital coloring
    Beelzebufo (Devil Frog)
  • cretoxyrhina
    Cretoxyrhina
  • Hybodus and other prehistoric creatures
    Hybodus, the Prehistoric Shark
  • acanthostega
    Acanthostega
  • pterodactylus
    Pterodactyl: Pictures, Types, and Characteristics
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