Every now and then, I come across a study that makes me hope my first doubtful impression is wrong and that the authors have better evidence to back up their claims. One such case was the hypothesis ...

It’s a dinosaur tooth, and clearly one that belonged to a predator – sharp and backwards-pointing. But this particularly tooth, belonging to a small raptor called Sinornithosaurus, has a special ...

Sinornithosaurus millenii, a dinosaur about the size of a turkey, had grooved fangs for channelling venom and a pocket in the upper jaw that probably held venom glands, scientists have discovered. The ...

As if getting bitten by a velociraptor wasn’t enough, scientists Monday announced the discovery that an off-shoot of the feared carnivorous dinosaur also spit venom into its prey. Scientists ...

Using snake-like fangs, saber-toothed dinosaur relatives of velociraptors likely subdued their prey with venom, scientists now suggest. Paleontologists analyzed the skulls of Sinornithosaurus, whose ...

The venom-spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park may have been fictional, but in a great case of life imitating art, scientists have discovered evidence of a real venomous dinosaur that walked the earth ...

Though its dinosaurs looked pretty good, Jurassic Park was not particularly accurate as far as science was concerned. One of the real howlers that sent paleontologists reeling was the decision to make ...

The world's first known venom-fanged bird has been discovered in ancient fossils dug up in northeast China, according to scientists at the University of Kansas. Sinornithosaurus (which translates as ...

If the thought of a voracious, razor-toothed dinosaur ripping into its prey isn't scary enough, consider a venomous dinosaur. That's what some scientists propose after discovering an unusual fossil in ...

Early dinosaurs weren't just covered in feathers. They were also poisonous. Analysis of skulls belonging to different species of Sinornithosaurus, a group of feathered predatory theropods that lived ...