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

Fossils are remarkable for their ability to viscerally connect us with long-lost life. The bulk of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, ...

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

The BYU Museum of Paleontology is marking its 50th anniversary this year, a milestone for the BYU Department of Geological ...

"The Black Gold Tapestry," a hand embroidered piece by Canadian artist Sandra Sawazky, takes viewers on a journey over ...

The largest study ever conducted on the growth of Tyrannosaurus rex reveals that the dinosaur took a far longer and slower route to adulthood than scientists had previously believed.

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 ...

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 dinosaur era spans more than 180 million years across three distinct geological periods From early evolutionary experiments to global dominance dinosaurs adapted to shifting climates and continent ...

Long before dinosaurs appeared Earth was shaped by a vast and unfamiliar world known as the Paleozoic Era Fossils from this time reveal early experiments in life including strange marine creatures tow ...

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, ...