CHENGDU -- Paleontologists have identified more than 20 dinosaur and other vertebrate footprints on a rock wall in Southwest ...

When this researcher first laid eyes on a fossil, she instantly realized it was a new dinosaur species that had likely died a ...

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.

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Researchers used a particle accelerator the size of a stadium in order to gain this unprecedented look inside these ...

What birders well know, fans of “composite organisms” and other creatures can now learn: how to identify obscure species in the wild.

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Welcome to Makoshika State Park in Glendive, Montana – the state’s largest state park that somehow remains its best-kept secret. The word “Makoshika” (pronounced muh-KO-shi-kuh) comes from Lakota, ...

Shows they evolved flight-ready brains in different ways from birds ATHENS – Flight is a rare skill in the animal world.

By Stephen Beech A fossil skull found 83 years ago originally thought to be a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex actually comes from a ...

For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...