San rock paintings in South Africa likely depict extinct dicynodonts, showcasing early local engagement in paleontology ...

A fearsome flesh-eating bird from the Phorusrhacid family - known as "terror birds" - may be the largest of its kind ever ...

Vigilant and authoritative, Hone sounds the alarm on the at times impulsive and rash nature of paleontology. “Much of the scientific literature tends toward a confidence in interpreting dinosaurian ...

This summer, a research team found enough fossils to qualify the specimen as one of the most complete contiguous Triceratops ...

DICKINSON — Paleontologists at the Badlands Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota are continuing their groundbreaking research on a ...

Canada's famed dinosaur hunter and one of the inspirations for the "Jurassic Park" phenomenon turned 75 earlier this year and has no plans to drop his chisel and rock hammer.

A team of researchers led by SNSB paleontologist Gertrud Rößner has discovered a new prehistoric dolphin species. Analyses of ...

A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The ...

A research group may have unraveled the mystery behind the locomotion of the ancient marine reptile, the plesiosaur, by recreating a bio-inspired control system that accounts for motion adjustment ...

From the 1960s through the ’80s, paleontology grew a bit, aided by advances in technology, but remained in the shadows of popular science. 1:54 ‘Exciting’ prehistoric discovery at southern ...

Scientists from Fairbanks, New Mexico and Japan have discovered the first reported fossilized tracks of a large four-toed bird that inhabited central Alaska 90 million to 120 million years ago. A ...