New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse ...

The article explores the evolutionary history of snakes, highlighting ten extinct species that showcase their dramatic ...

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

A strange characteristic of dinosaur skulls amazed researchers, showing evidence of muscles nobody was anticipating.

The exhibition China's Dinosaur World, featuring 118 dinosaur fossils and models brought together from across China, ...

2025 — A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were recently uncovered is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of ...

They concluded that its well-preserved feathers helped explain why the archaeopteryx could fly when many of its non-bird dinosaur cousins ... associate curator of fossil reptiles who led the ...