Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults ...

In a remote mine in Canada, a chance strike from an excavator revealed something few paleontologists ever get to see: a ...

The 20,000-square-foot Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures showcases hundreds of authentic artifacts and fossils from ...

A delicate but exquisitely preserved skull of a crow-sized bird with a scythe-like beak that inhabited Madagascar 68 million years ago is showing scientists that they have a lot of learn about avian ...

Scientists may have solved one of paleontology's enduring mysteries - the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at the same time that dinosaurs dominated ...

The fossil was first discovered in 2001 and passed around between museums before experts were finally able to analyze it this year.

A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...

In 2001, a fossil collector named Chris Moore was scouring the rocks of the Golden Cap area of Dorset when he noticed ancient bones on the surface. It was “nearly complete” fossilized remains of an ...

A new climbing reptile from the Jurassic period, Sphenodraco scandentis, has been discovered following the reconstruction of ...

A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of ...

A full analysis of the ancient beast was only completed recently, with specialists revealing it is a find like no other.