A groundbreaking analysis of the ‘Dueling Dinosaurs’ fossil has finally resolved a long-standing mystery in the world of paleontology. The fossil, discovered under a parking lot by the Denver museum, ...

The 70-million-year-old fossil—an “exceptional” full Tarbosaurus baatar—was seized in France after being trafficked out of the Gobi Desert, where Mongolia has long battled fossil smuggling.

French customs have seized a large collection of dinosaur fossils illegally exported from Mongolia, and the specimens will ...

A fiberglass replica of the head of a nearly 70-million-year-old fossil is fueling the curiosity among James B. Conant High School students. Tyrannosaurus rex Norm’s noggin arrived at the school this ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, defied conventions by combining two different mineral-building methods.

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...