WASHINGTON — Walt Disney World’s DinoLand U.S.A. has officially gone extinct. The dinosaur-themed area at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando closed permanently on Feb. 1, ending a nearly three-decade ...

Before bitumen was laid and suburban homes were built in the Brisbane suburb of Albion, a vast quarry of sandstone rocks was ripe for exploration. It was a site that esteemed palaeontologist Bruce ...

A newly discovered raptor had a knobby bump on its head, suggesting that, like some larger dinosaurs, it engaged in competitive head bashing. By Jack Tamisiea Head-butting was all the rage at the end ...

For more than a century, dinosaur footprints have been both a gift and a headache. They’re some of the most direct evidence we have of animals moving through real landscapes, but they’re also ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

Dinosaur footprints are iconic fossils, but it is challenging to identify their makers. This is illustrated by a long-standing debate about whether some footprints from the Late Triassic-Early ...

Sharn Davidson has lived with Tourette syndrome (TS), a neurological condition that causes involuntary movements and vocalisations, known as tics, for most of her life. Her Tourette's takes an unusual ...