A new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar has been identified. Dubbed Dahalokely tokana by its discoverers, the dinosaur was a member of a group called abelisauroids, carnivorous ...

A new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar has been identified. Dubbed Dahalokely tokana by its discoverers, the dinosaur was a member of a group called abelisauroids, carnivorous ...

What starts as the story of a little-known predator quickly becomes a deep dive into one of the most disturbing dinosaurs ever discovered. Living on the isolated island of Madagascar during the final ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life-like reconstruction of the opossum-sized mammal Adalatherium hui that lived 66 million years ago alongside dinosaurs on the ...

Researchers have discovered an ancient relative of dinosaurs, a 4-inch reptile that lived 237 million years ago. “There’s a general perception of dinosaurs as being giants,” said the study's lead ...

An artist's rendering of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described 4-inch-tall reptile that lived in southwestern Madagascar some 237 million years ago. Researchers think the Triassic creature may be ...

Tiny fossil was found encased in sandstone back in 1998 Examining a small thigh bone fossil led scientists to believe it was nearly a full-grown adult, not a baby Fossil is understood to represent ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prehistoric opossum-sized critter dubbed the "crazy beast" that inhabited Madagascar at the end of the age of dinosaurs is providing scientists insight into early mammalian ...