Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

Researchers have reclassified a long-misidentified fossil from New Mexico as Ahshiselsaurus wimani, a newly recognized giant duck-billed dinosaur that offers fresh insights into hadrosaur evolution ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

Animals often swallow stones called gastroliths to help grind food. But none of the thousands of similar fossil birds have ever been found with swallowed stones.

The erosion of public media hurts the education of American children, including immigrants. Not only is television the first ...

At the Carreras Pampa site, located in the Torotoro National Park, in central Bolivia, approximately 16,600 fossil footprints of dinosaurs ...

When this researcher first laid eyes on a fossil, she instantly realized it was a new dinosaur species that had likely died a ...

Learn how a unique combination of anatomical traits and CT-scan data led researchers to classify Chromeornis as a new ...

Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to master powered flight, did so with brains that were far smaller than many scientists ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...