In a study published in January, researchers confirmed the preservation of original organic molecules in Mesozoic dinosaur ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

A 69-million-year-old fossilized skull unearthed in Antarctica could rewrite the history of modern birds. The nearly complete ...

A Cretaceous-era skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, has been confirmed as a member of the same order as ducks and geese, ...

Now, more than a decade later, new analysis of the fossils has found that they belong to a new 73-million-year-old species, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Researchers from UCLA contributed to the study, using tandem mass spectrometry to detect and quantify—for the first time—the ...

Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously ...

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have ...

A team of researchers from Okayama University of Science (OUS) in Japan and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy ...

China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the ...

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