Spectacular ‘Wonderchicken’ Fossil Found Hidden in a Limestone Quarry, Helps Decode the Origin of Birds A tiny creature that was half the size of a mallard was found in rocks that were dated back to ...

Researchers ‘Blown Away’ After Discovering Rare Fossil of a Duck-Billed Herbivorous Dinosaur With Basketball-Like Skin In ...

Dinosaurs stimulate our imagination, exhibit curators and visitors at the American Museum of Natural History told USA TODAY one rainy afternoon.

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily incomplete. As such, finding fossils involves not only perseverance and luck ...

ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y. – The first discovery of a mastodon fossil in New York state in 11 ... important find for the scientific community." A complete mastodon jaw was found in a home's backyard ...

Billionaire Kenneth Griffin's record-breaking stegosaurus fossil ... is really a pretty special specimen to understand.” The nearly complete fossil, discovered in 2022 in Colorado, is about ...

A newly discovered dinosaur species, Lishulong wangi, has been identified from a well-preserved skull found in southern China ...

A near-complete specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex, nicknamed "Stan", has been sold for a world record price of $31.8m (£24.6m). The 67-million-year-old fossil went to an anonymous bidder in the sale ...