Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils.

Scientists reveal Tongnanlong zhimingi, a giant dinosaur from the late Jurassic period in China that reached up to ...

A new study analyzed four sets of fossil footprints, including cat-like tracks in 29-million-year-old volcanic ash in Oregon.

Birds are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, not crocodiles. Modern birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. They retain skeletal, behavioral, a ...

A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargantuan Alamosaurus, dates to shortly before the ...

A newly identified fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, dating to the Campanian period (about 80 million years ago), extends the evolutionary history of Dyrosauridae and underscores Egypt’s Western ...

Most of our knowledge of New Zealand's prehistoric bird diversity comes from long-lost species with bones large enough to be studied by eye. But many bird bones are so tiny we can barely see their ...

Unlike in the advanced labs under the watchful eye of Jurassic Park scientists on the fictional Isla Nublar, much of paleontology isn’t so glamorous. From days spent in remote desert landscapes to ...

Modern science reveals dinosaurs were more intelligent than previously thought, with Troodon formosus standing out as an exceptional thinker. This sma ...