A fossil found in southwest Germany in 1978 has been deemed to represent a new species of marine reptile known as a ...

“We can compare them to big lizards like Komodo Dragons. They had sort of these slicing bites, hacking away flesh off prey,” ...

Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was ...

The Sam Noble Museum boasts the only known fossil of the Aquilops, the tiny dinosaur star of the new blockbuster, debuting on ...

“Preserved blood vessel structures, like we have found in Scotty’s rib bone, appear linked to areas where the bone was healing,” says study co-author Mauricio Barbi, a physicist at the University of ...

Museum of the Rockies team is now excavating fossils near Lewistown, believed to be from a large plant-eating dinosaur over ...

"Even after up to 150 million years, isotopic traces of the oxygen molecules of the Mesozoic atmosphere that the dinosaur ...

Fossilized dinosaur teeth can reveal a lot more than just how these creatures ate and who they were related to – they can ...

In four of the other fossils, the researchers found fibre-like structures. The rib from the dinosaur that couldn't be identified even showed bands in the fibres that are seen in fresh collagen.

The fossils – totalling more than 8,000 – appear to suggest the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago, and then declined in the nine million years leading up to the ...