Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

A team of geologists, paleontologists, and climate scientists with members from institutions in Mexico, the U.S., and Spain ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

A new genus and species of Ornithomimidae, Mexidracon longimanus, has been identified from the ornithomimosaur material.

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as forests vanish, sightings are on the rise—offering a glimpse into how folklore is ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

It might be that palaeontologists haven’t been looking in the right place. By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...

Near dinosaur nesting sites, fossil finds showed that this snake fed on hatchlings and perhaps even titanosaurs, dinosaurs that eat plants with sizes massive enough to consume entire trees.

Dinosaur sex is something that science writer ... the more archaic birds (the birds are kind of at the base of the family tree), that's our best guide for what an animal like Stegosaurus or ...