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

Birds are living dinosaurs whose ancestors include T. rex and giant penguins. Understanding their past can help us imagine ...

Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into ...

In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other ...

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

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

In the heart of the Middle Atlas Mountains in central Morocco, a global team of paleontologists and geologists has discovered ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.

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You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?” That was Simba Srivastava’s first reaction to the battered fossil sitting ...

Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? Those prehistoric creatures who met their end around 65 million years ago are currently being memorialized online by dino-heads who mourn ...

Though described as “uniquely sucky,” this fossil has overturned thinking on a murky period in prehistory – and you can even ...