Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known impressions of reptile skin from the Thuringian Forest in central ...

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

An international team of paleontologists has uncovered the oldest known fossil reptile embryos, dating back approximately 280 ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

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 ...

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 ...

“This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies,” said Arjan Mann of the Field Museum in Chicago, a co-lead author of the study. “It shows that experimentation with herbivory ...

The sight of an open expanse stretching into infinity is a tonic for clearing cluttered minds. Promising silence, solitude ...

Fossilized footprints are among the most abundant traces dinosaurs left behind. But linking a track to its corresponding ...

For decades, paleontologists have searched for the biggest dinosaur to ever walk the Earth, but the answer remains surprisingly uncertain. Massive species like Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan are ...