How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...
The dome-headed dinosaur is easily one of the most standout-looking creatures of the Cretaceous period. The image of their ...
To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build evolutionary trees from hundreds of anatomical traits—hip sockets, vertebrae, ...
Fossils are remarkable for their ability to viscerally connect us with long-lost life. The bulk of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, ...
Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question.
About 150 million years ago, the land that is now the western United States was alive with dinosaurs. New research shows that ...
We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...
The Yixian Formation in northeastern China has produced some of the most extraordinary dinosaur fossils ever discovered. Many are preserved with feathers, transforming our understanding of dinosaur ...
The BYU Museum of Paleontology is marking its 50th anniversary this year, a milestone for the BYU Department of Geological ...
New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...
Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most ...