Jurassic World Dominion brought dinosaurs back as global threats, but many of its creatures were based on real fossil ...

Though some body parts fell away, possibly due to opportunistic scavengers, the dinosaurs remained largely intact. Falling into a giant muddy footprint isn’t a bad way to go if you want to become a ...

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the ...

An AI app is decoding dinosaur footprints—and may have just spotted the world’s oldest birds hiding in plain sight.

Some dinosaurs reached sizes that seem impossible for life on land, raising a question that science still struggles to settle ...

Recent discoveries about an alvarezsaur called Manipulonyx have drawn renewed attention to this group of bird-like, clawed creatures and the mysteries around their anatomy and behavior ...

An image shows the scaly skin of a crest over the back of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens, a specimen nicknamed "Ed Jr." by researchers. The juvenile is estimated to have ...

In the world of paleontology, the biggest bones usually grab the loudest headlines. But ...

Named Foskeia, from Greek "fos" for light and "skei" from boskein meaning to forage, the species honours the ancient ...

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue. You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old ...