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

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

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

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.

But new archaeological evidence is calling into question this supposed dramatic dinosaur catastrophe ... The humans at Pompeii were also discovered hunched over in “pugilistic positions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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