Paleontologists at the University of Chicago have revealed fossilized duck-billed dinosaur specimens from Wyoming that were carefully prepared in the Fossil Lab. These fossils preserve soft tissue and ...

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

South Dakota Mines mechanical engineering students brought engineering and imagination together to build large dinosaur ...

A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan this holiday season. The Origami Holiday Tree at the American ...

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

The two dinosaurs would have had very different ecologies, Zanno said. T. rex was a bulky predator with a massive skull, powerful bite force and serrated teeth the shape of bananas. Nanotyrannus was ...

Twenty years ago, near the border between Belgium and the Netherlands, an amateur fossil hunter named Maarten van Dinther picked up a featureless block of rock the size of a pack of cards. Though he ...

For decades, many scientists believed dinosaurs were already dwindling in number and variety long before an asteroid strike sealed their fate 66 million years ago. But new research in the journal ...

Imaging technology has revolutionised palaeontology, allowing scientists to study fossils that are buried deep in the rock or too small to handle. Two recent studies I was involved with show some of ...