The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its ...

Long extinct, they won’t be found but fossils of some of them and other creatures unearthed during construction of the ...

The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.

Paleontologists say they have made a significant discovery of dinosaur fossils on a remote mountaintop in northern ... of ...

I wouldn’t want to make that illegal, to stop people from collecting their own fossils. The real issue here is these very rare, very unusual, very scientifically important, one of a kind dinosaur ...

“Sasayama” comes from the Sasayama Basin, which is where the fossils were found. And “gnomus” is Latin for gnome, a creature ...

The project began nearly a decade ago, when Smithsonian scientists were developing a new fossil hall for the National Museum of Natural History. In a departure from most other paleontology exhibits, ...

Imagine being so in love with your hobby that you spend more than half your life on it. Mark Daniel doesn’t have to imagine ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of triceratops-like dinosaur using fossils found in Japan ... Brendan Rascius is a McClatchy national real-time reporter covering politics and ...