Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the ...

A newly discovered raptor had a knobby bump on its head, suggesting that, like some larger dinosaurs, it engaged in ...

The Late Cretaceous of South America has emerged as a focal point for investigations into ancient plant communities and their environmental contexts. Studies in paleobotany and palynology have ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the details of their end have remained a matter of debate since the impact crater ...

Second specimen collected by the 2001 joint American Museum-Mongolian Academy of Science expedition to the Gobi Desert. Cf. introd. Summary The late Cretaceous tyrannosaurid Alioramus altai is known ...

In a remote stretch of northern Spain, a small set of fossilized bones has stirred debate across the paleontological ...