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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow ...

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

Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time ... Bernadette Linn said that “the discovery is of great significance and provides new evidence for research on palaeoecology in ...

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

A well-preserved skull fossil of a new bird species discovered in Brazil helps scientists understand the evolution of modern ...