The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

In a fossil-rich region of northeastern China, a well-preserved specimen of an ancient flying reptile has brought new clarity to a long-standing question in palaeontology. For decades, researchers ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

In December 2024, researchers published a paper in Paelontologia Electronica detailing an incredible fossil discovery — the 45-million-year-old skull of a Diatryma, a genus of giant flightless bird.

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Illustration: Brian Engh From a small ...

A prehistoric predator long lost to time just reemerged as a fossil replica, and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

A GIANT duck-billed dino dubbed a “cow of the Cretaceous” that was unknown to science has been found. The mammoth beast would ...

Prehistoric Takeover, returns to Blackpool this January with a brand-new, interactive live experience packed with ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...