Since two academics started a program offering undergraduate students a chance to study distinctive fossil specimens, they’ve ...

A new species of dinosaur, nicknamed a “murder muppet,” was discovered by an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech. His ...

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

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

Arizonasaurus was an archosaur from the Middle Triassic. Dinosaurs evolved from a group of reptiles called archosaurs (“ruling reptiles”) around 240–250 million years ago. This was during the Triassic ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a ...

In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ago. The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, ...