It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Some bones forgotten in a drawer for more than 20 years turned out to be from a species of dinosaur never seen before.

A Late Cretaceous ankylosaur specimen found in Guangchang county in Fuzhou, East China's Jiangxi Province, nearly four ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...