A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.

For over a century, a peculiar fossil has been a source of intrigue and debate among paleontologists. Its unusual ...

Scientists discovered that some dinosaur “mummies," such as Edmontosaurus annectens, weren’t preserved skin but clay molds ...

Long before horses thundered across the plains, a plant-eating giant with hooves of its own left footprints in the mud. Newly ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest salmon in Arctic Alaska’s Cretaceous fossil. During the Cretaceous Period, ...

New research finds that ocean-dwelling fish entered freshwater environments on several occasions, evolving enhanced hearing abilities in the process. When ancient marine fish transitioned from ...

Scientists have unveiled a previously unknown tyrannosaur species that fundamentally changes our understanding of how the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex evolved. The newly identified dinosaur, named ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Imagine digging up a fossil that completely rewrites what scientists thought they knew about prehistoric life. Some dinosaur ...

Researchers reveal that a 66-million-year-old “dinosaur mummy” wasn’t preserved skin but a thin clay film that perfectly ...

Unlike the carefully wrapped mummies of ancient Egypt or naturally preserved human remains found in bogs and deserts, dinosaur mummies are created when skin and soft tissues fossilise over millions of ...