Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop has been around since 1970, but the contents of its basement have witnessed all of human history and another three billion years beyond that. Featuring gemstones, ...

Apatosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs ever discovered, yet parts of its story remain surprisingly unsettled. Fossils from the Late Jurassic reveal a giant built for power and scale, but key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monument staff work on excavated dinosaur fossils in the Quarry Exhibit Hall Parking Lot. Workers at Dinosaur National Monument ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil evidence suggests their babies were frequently eaten by multiple predators, making ...

Apatosaurus is often presented as a well-understood dinosaur, yet its scientific history remains full of uncertainty. Early fossil discoveries triggered naming disputes, reconstruction errors, and ...

A new immersive experience with dozens of animatronics will bring dinosaurs to life at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group of dinosaurs called sauropods that ...

Babies and very young sauropods – the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

Before trees came along some 400 million years ago, our planet’s landscape was dominated by enigmatic, spire-shaped life-forms that towered more than 25 feet above the ground. Their trunklike fossils ...