The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

With foot-long claws, Duonychus, a newly discovered species of therizinosaur, looks like one of the terrifying stars of the ...

This rare fossil is thought to belong to a dinosaur that died instantly when the asteroid hit, providing an incredible look at that moment of destruction. Phillip Manning, a professor at the ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia could turn what we know about the evolution of ...

It's rare that I get to find fossil shark teeth outside of the state of Florida. So, when I had the opportunity to team up ...

In Big Bend National Park in Texas, geology students uncovered a rare fossil belonging to one of North America's largest dinosaurs. This discovery revives the study of a little-known giant from the ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could ...

Reconstruction of a late Maastrichtian (~66 million years ago) palaeoenvironment in North America, where a floodplain is roamed by dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex, Edmontosaurus annectens and ...

Once simmering, the debate over who gets to hunt for dinosaur ... area where, on rare occasions, amateurs are authorized to join scientific excavations. More often, fossils disappear from the ...

This plant-eating dinosaur, related to meat-eaters ... The preserved keratin is a rare discovery and gives researchers new information about the functionality of the claws. Kobayashi added ...

Ammolite is a rare gemstone that forms from ... which was over 300 million years ago—long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Most iridescent ammonite fossils known today come from the Mesozoic ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new light on insect evolution, researchers have found.