The “excellently preserved” fossil from the Cretaceous era, dating back 99 million years, comes from the Kachin region in ...

What happened to prehistoric, dolphin-like marine reptiles when they died? Did they sink or they float until the gases from ...

An international, multi-university research team, including scientists from Columbus State University, has unearthed a ...

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest salmon in Arctic Alaska’s Cretaceous fossil. During the Cretaceous Period, ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized lower right canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont in the Taubaté Basin ...

It was a gray morning on the steppes of central Mongolia when paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig spotted something glinting on a distant slope. It was not a rock. As he drew closer, he realized he ...

A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

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

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes ...