Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

Victorian coastal fossils are trending as Museums Victoria unearths a giant whale in Ocean Grove. Join the 2026 fossil hunt!

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

A 20-year program partners with Michigan DNR to prevent poaching of the threatened species, which can weigh up to 200 pounds and live to be 100 years old.

When you picture an ancient crocodile from millions of years ago, you probably imagine a low-slung, scaly water predator ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in India is giving scientists new clues about how some dinosaurs reproduced. Researchers have ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, ...

Dinosaurs are one of those species that have never been seen in real life by anyone; everyone has grown up seeing dinosaurs ...

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

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 ...