A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

New dinosaur fossils were discovered at the Dinosaur National Monument, leading to the first excavation there in more than 100 years, officials revealed Friday. The National Park Service said that ...

Finding dinosaur fossils on the island of Ireland is harder than finding a "needle in a haystack", the curator of geology at National Museums Northern Ireland has said. But the only two ever to have ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monument staff work on excavated dinosaur fossils in the Quarry Exhibit Hall Parking Lot. Workers at Dinosaur National Monument ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks ...

Explore ancient dinosaur tracks at Red Fleet State Park, Utah, where footprints from the Early Jurassic period offer a ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

(TMX) - A fossil once locked in prehistoric combat has just rewritten one of paleontology’s longest-running debates — and upended what scientists thought they knew about Tyrannosaurus rex. The ...

Scientists have said fossils of a small newly discovered dinosaur found in Spain could change ideas on the evolution of ornithopods.Fossils uncovered in Spain could lead to new clues about how ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the age of fossil-bearing rocks—by directly dating fossilized dinosaur ...