A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

The dinosaur was about as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a unique nasal horn and symmetrical teeth that it used to eat ...

an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the ...

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

The findings, the team explains, may pave the way toward fresh analyses of existing fossils and new insights into not only dinosaurs but other forms of ancient life. An artist's impression shows ...

For the 24 th year, the Schiele Museum of Natural History wants to help visitors dig into their interest in fossils. The ...

Pterosaur's neck bone shows evidence of a croc bite Fossil found at Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park ... unaware of danger lurking at the water's edge. Suddenly, a large croc surged out of ...

Paleontologists continue to find fossils that help revise our understanding of how dinosaurs did it Riley Black Science Correspondent The Tyrannosaurus at Spain’s Jurassic Museum of Asturias ...