In 1958, a schoolboy in Brisbane discovered something remarkable, what we now know to be Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil. Found by Bruce Runnegar in Petrie’s Quarry, this dinosaur footprint has ...

Octopuses' earliest relatives may have been gigantic predators hunting during the age of dinosaurs, according to new Hokkaido ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by ...

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Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur -- and it's a big deal. First, let's talk size. The dino, Mansourasaurus shahinae, was the length of a school bus and about as heavy as an elephant ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of enormous, intelligent, octopus-like predators that dominated Earth's ancient oceans.

A sculpture prepared by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County shows what scientists believe the dinosaur Augustynolophus looked like. The only two specimens ever found of the dinosaur were ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s new Pachycephalosaurus skull sheds light on enigmatic group of dinosaurs and will be on display during the holiday season Jack Tamisiea The museum recently ...

"You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" asked Simba Srivastava. Surrounded by cabinets full of ancient bones in the paleobiology lab, the Virginia Tech undergraduate student held out a ...

This story is part of our weekly Hidden Gems feature series as the USA TODAY Network – Florida takes readers around the state to highlight some of our most interesting attractions. The Dinosaur Store ...