The trouble was the area these fossils were found in would have been inland in the Late Cretaceous period. Other bones from a dinosaur named Segnosaurus were discovered in subsequent years in the Gobi ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.

The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community — but will ...

A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow ...

Musk's dream of transporting humans to Mars could also become a bigger national priority under Trump, Reuters reported ...

A new glass façade now seamlessly connects the museum to the Exposition Park, allowing those outside a peek at Gnatalie, a.k.a. “the Green Dinosaur” (more on her below), and grants those inside views ...

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

Scientists from Fairbanks, New Mexico and Japan have discovered the first reported fossilized tracks of a large four-toed bird that inhabited central Alaska 90 million to 120 million years ago. A ...

Berry-flavored vapes may pose significant risks to lung health, as new research reveals their potential to paralyze immune ...

The fossil was on display in a museum, but unlabeled and hidden right under paleontologists’ noses for 20 years.