A small fossil jaw rests in Argentina’s national natural science museum in Buenos Aires. The fossil, only six inches long, ...

Triceratops and similar horned dinosaurs had unusually large nasal cavities compared to most animals. Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, used CT scans of fossilized Triceratops ...

Researchers have conducted the largest study ever on - all right, brace yourself - dinosaur poo. Yeah, no, it sounds a little messy. But as NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, the findings may shed new ...

It doesn't appear dramatic at first glance. A spherical fossil discovered on dry ground in central India, one of many found in an old nesting site. However, when the researchers examined closer, ...

BOLLINGER COUNTY, Mo. — Finding the fossils of a large duck-billed dinosaur in southern Missouri is exciting enough, but a paleontologist who helped lead the dig believes there are many more in the ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have been scouring western North America’s Hell Creek Formation for new dinosaurs. The rocks preserve some of the last non-avian dinosaurs before Earth’s fifth ...

Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid smashed into the Earth, marking the beginning of a mass extinction event during which three quarters of the plant and animal species on our planet are ...