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An international team of paleontologists has found a piece of amber containing the beautifully preserved ammonite, several marine and land organisms that...
The Arizona Museum of Natural History unveiled the name of a new prehistoric creature to add to its collection – a relative of the well-known...
Godzilla has remarkable staying power. Movies about giant monsters were a dime a dozen back in the 1950s. Yet while Atomic Age...
The Department of Mineral Resources says dinosaur fossils have been discovered at Phra Prong water reservoir in Tambon Chong Kum in Wattana Nakhon district of Sa Kaeo province.
How different would our world be if “terrible lizards” were still among us?
New Mexico college students are using drones to help map the location of dinosaur tracks at a state park, the latest project to use drone technology to gather data from historical sites in the American West.
A previously unknown species of bird-like dinosaur with pterosaur-like wings has been discovered by a team of paleontologists working with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and the Center for Excellence in...
Statistical analysis of fossil data shows that it is unlikely that Australopithecus sediba, a nearly two-million-year-old, apelike fossil from South Africa, is the direct ancestor of Homo, t...
THE LAST OF the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, but they come roaring back to life in German photographer Christian Voigt's remarkable new series.
Extreme fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen levels corresponded with evolutionary surges and extinctions in animal biodiversity during the...