Over the past decade, paleontology has entered a new era of rapid discovery and scientific transformation. Breakthrough fossils unearthed across Asia, South America, North America, and Europe have ...

For decades, dinosaur seekers have anecdotally noted the presence of distinctive orange growth on fossil bones. It turns out that vibrant orange lichens—crusty little colonies that can comprise algae ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new fossil study suggests baby duck-billed dinosaurs ate softer, richer foods than adults, hinting at bird-like parenting.

Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that dinosaurs are no longer creatures trapped inside museum displays. They are ...

The Hațeg Basin in Transylvania is world-famous for its dinosaur remains, which have been unearthed from dozens of sites over the past century. Despite the high number of fossil localities, dinosaur ...

THE name “tyrannosaur” conjures up images of towering predators with enormous heads and ridiculously small arms. But Moros intrepidus wasn’t like that. This 96-million-year-old tyrannosaur was the ...

Xu Xing‘s dinosaur finds range from a pint-sized creature with four wings to the feathered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex. Between them, they have cemented the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and ...

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in New Mexico said Thursday in the journal Science. Experts have long debated ...

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Paleontologists have long wrestled with the challenge of identifying the genders of dinosaurs from the fossils they leave behind. Once the soft tissues like reproductive organs have decayed away, ...

How did birds emerge from a lineage of large dinosaurs whose clawed feet were planted firmly on the ground? Size really matters, according to a team of scientists that traced the incredibly fast ...

Maiasaura dinosaur teeth carry a quiet clue: babies were not eating what adults ate. Tiny wear marks suggest young duck-bills got softer, richer food, adding fresh weight to the idea that some ...