A newfound site in the Italian Alps holds one of the largest collections of Triassic dinosaur footprints ever seen ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Scientists have discovered a giant dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period in China's Suining Formation. Researchers estimate the dinosaur measured over 90 feet long, even though they did not find the ...

Diplodocus was one of the longest dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic. But its most unusual feature may have been its extremely ...

RED FLEET STATE PARK, Utah - A three-toed footprint appeared in the rock, slightly longer than my hiking boot. The outlines ...

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, ...

The extinction of ocean dinosaurs is widely accepted but questions continue to surface Some modern marine animals share traits that blur evolutionary boundaries Scientists examine fossils genetics and ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil reveals a newly discovered dinosaur covered in unusual spikes scientists have never seen before.

A 125-million-year-old dinosaur just rewrote what we thought we knew about prehistoric life. Scientists in China have uncovered an exceptionally preserved juvenile iguanodontian with fossilized skin ...

The dome-headed dinosaur is easily one of the most standout-looking creatures of the Cretaceous period. The image of their hardy dome-heads has slowly seeped into the public imagination via movies ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil reveals a newly discovered dinosaur covered in unusual spikes scientists have never seen before.

A newly examined prehistoric shark from the age of dinosaurs provides surprising insights into the early evolution of modern sharks. It cannot be confidently assigned to any shark order that exists ...