Eggs laid by dinosaurs have provided paleontologists with a new way to tell prehistoric time. By looking to radioactive ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

For birds, black feathers provide certain flight advantages. That's because black feathers contain more pigment-packed melanosomes than do feathers of other colors, and melanosomes can bind with ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists, led by Dr Ryan Tucker from Stellenbosch University, has developed a ...

The fossils found reveal the existence of Ahshislesaurus wimani, a new, duck-billed hadrosaur from the late Cretaceous period ...

Research on fossils reveals that ankylosaurs’ iconic tail weapons evolved much earlier than scientists had previously believed. The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than scientists ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

Ice is not quiet. Standing at the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland under a midnight sun, a clash of titans got underway: “Snap ...

From the shutdown deal to older politicians running for re-election, Democratic voters are angry. Some say their party should ...

From the Challenger explosion and $0.25-a-minute phone calls to the Tylenol murders and 1-900 numbers, here are 23 real ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking way to measure time in the distant past—by dating fossilized dinosaur eggshells.

A newly identified fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, dating to the Campanian period (about 80 million years ago), extends the evolutionary history of Dyrosauridae and underscores Egypt’s Western ...