A newly described dinosaur seems to have come with its own built-in egg-grabber. In a study published in the Proceedings of ...

For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Like the generations before them, Generation Alpha has their own set of words and phrases that bind them together. For anyone dreading sitting across from their teenage cousin and feeling like the ...

Two dinosaur eggs, each about five inches (13 centimeters) across and almost perfectly round, have surprised scientists in eastern China. Instead of fragile shells packed with embryonic bone, the ...

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones lying almost on top of each other. The K2 site preserves thousands of remains ...

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Paleontologists may have uncovered the traces of a dinosaur that may have been limping, thanks to fossilized footprints preserved in stone for over 150 million years. In a Nov. 25 press release from ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details about the enormous reptiles that once roamed the Earth Newly discovered species ...

Mosasaurs were enormous reptiles best known for ruling ancient oceans more than 66 million years ago, but new evidence suggests some also lived in rivers. Scientists reached this conclusion after ...

These days, it’s common knowledge that birds are living dinosaurs. Victorian naturalists proposed the notion after spotting similarities between dinosaur fossils and contemporary bird skeletons. But ...