Paleontologists have made a discovery that can change how we understand dinosaurs. Despite centuries of research into ancient ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

After a career spent largely in the shadows, Field Museum ornithologist Dave Willard is enjoying a moment in the spotlight ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

A remarkably well-preserved dinosaur fossil has arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of National History. According ...

It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...

New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

The prints, likely left by herds of migrating theropods 70 million years ago, make the Carreras Pampa tracksite the largest ...

The remarkable skull will be on display from December 22 through December 28. After spending the next few years behind the ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...