The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

A fossil reveals the existence of Athenar bermani, a new sauropod that redefines the family tree of Utah's giants.

A recent study published in Earth Science Reviews examines how both the shine and excellent preservation of fossils discovered at Germany’s Posidonia Shale is not the result of pyrite (aka fool’s gold ...

CNN — Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable ...

The fossil called "Medusa" could be a dinosaur mummy—the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years old that ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists working at NASA recently made an important and striking discovery that could teach humanity a lot about the evolution of galaxies. According to a new report by NASA's ...

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