A flexible tongue, sensitive beak and teethlike cones in the mouth may have helped Archaeopteryx generate enough energy to fly.

Denver has been quietly redefining itself. Once known as the “Queen City of the Plains,” Denver is now one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country, a place where migration, innovation, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jordan Guelig, of Wisconsin, was named Sturgeon King of the 2026 Black Lake sturgeon season on Feb. 7. It was a rapid 48-minute season during which six lake sturgeon were caught, ranging from 40 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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