Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

The remarkable skull will be on display from December 22 through December 28. After spending the next few years behind the ...

For decades, a small tyrannosaur skull has divided paleontologists over whether it belonged to a separate species or a ...

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.

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

Baby dinosaurs survived on their own, living completely separate lives from adults and filling unique roles in ancient ecosystems.

Dinosaur eggs are turning out to be some of the most revealing fossils in modern paleontology, and a wave of discoveries in ...

The Saudi Space Agency announced on Saturday the successful launch of two Saudi satellites, designed by students from Umm ...

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

Louisiana Key Academy Charter Specialty School students. How ludicrous would it be to hear: “My cancer doctor gives every patient the same treatment, regardless of whether the cancer is colon, breast, ...

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 ...

More than a century ago prolific fossil collector Charles Sternberg discovered the skeleton of a duck-billed Edmontosaurus dinosaur in the sandstone rocks of the Lance Formation in eastern Wyoming.