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

A near-complete fossil from Patagonia has finally cracked open the mysterious evolutionary history of one of prehistory's strangest dinosaur groups ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

The poodle-sized reptile that lived over 200 million years ago was among creatures that had features similar to dinosaurs it lived beside.

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Researchers believe these creatures started out on four legs and later began walking on two legs as they grew.

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first ...

Dinosaur skeletons often dominate museum halls, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue in Chicago to Sophie the Stegosaurus in London. These fossils shape how you picture dinosaurs. Yet ...

Paleontologists unearthed a remarkable new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in Niger's Sahara. This colossal creature ...

Morocco: Ancient Fossils Shed Light On A Key Period In Human Evolution. Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered ...