Finding dinosaurs is a mixture of knowing where to look and pure luck. It typically involves paleontologists hiking for miles through promising places, their eyes glued to the ground, scanning for the ...

Slick mud and winter rain repeatedly stalled the work. Still, paleontologists in southern France pushed forward and uncovered ...

A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s favorite ...

Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The snout of Nanotyrannus, which has more teeth than T. rex. - NC Museum of Natural Sciences A legendary fossil housed at the ...