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

The Pachycephalosaurus skull belonged to a dinosaur with a domed-shaped head that lived around 67 million years ago ...

Paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum have concluded that a cluster of stones lodged in the ancient bird's throat likely ...

A small dinosaur discovered, Pulaosaurus qinglong, had seeds in its stomach and a “vocal box,” revealing how dinosaurs might ...

For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly evidence of life, or just odd rock formations? Now, scientists have ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Scientists conduct study in ‘home of Chinese dinosaurs’, discover that flat rocks with ‘chicken claw’ prints are from Jurassic period.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – One thing that northwestern New Mexico is known for is lots of dinosaur fossils. Previously, paleontologists estimated that the fossils in the Birsti Badlands were 70 million years ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...

The bonebed contains the 21-million-year-old remains of sea cows, sharks, barracuda-like fish, prehistoric dolphins and sea ...