The positioning of these footprints suggest the animals were visiting a water source, perhaps following an ancient river.

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...

An ancient leg bone uncovered in Africa might provide a step forward in understanding how dinosaurs and their close relatives ...

Horseshoe crab ancestors first appeared in the fossil record 450 million years ago. But climate change and harvesting are ...

Long before dinosaurs first appeared, a diverse array of animal life, including frogs, turtles, sharks, clams, and various fish, already populated the Earth.

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

Shri rapax had bigger claws and potentially a stronger bite than its Hollywood relative. But paleontologists still don’t know ...

Pointless to keep alive but impossible to kill, the "Jurassic" franchise returns for another loud nap of a new installment.

A 225-million-year-old leg bone from Zambia is helping scientists rethink the size, diversity, and role of early dinosaurs.

Paleontologists identified a new ancient reptile appendage. And, how fast did dinosaurs run? A longstanding equation for dino ...

Jurassic World Rebirth gets a lot of play out of the Mosasaurus and Quetzalcoatlus, but they mess around with one key detail.