“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

In 1971, paleontologists uncovered one of the most dramatic fossils ever discovered - two dinosaurs locked in combat for over 70 million years. The famous “fighting dinosaurs” fossil shows a ...

The discovery was led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientist Peter Makovicky along with Argentine paleontologist Sebastian ...

Paul Sereno, a University of Chicago paleontologist, and his team were in the heart of the Sahara Desert in 2019 when they came across scattered teeth — fossils from some ...

Scientists discovered a 150-million-year-old dinosaur egg nest on Portugal’s coast, preserving multiple eggs in their original arrangement. This offers rare insights into Jurassic dinosaur ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

He also noted that features such as bipedalism, toothless beaks, hollow bones, and large eye sockets are typically associated ...

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

These newly discovered crocodyliform eggs suggest a shift toward semi-aquatic lifestyles and humid nesting sites.