For decades, dinosaur seekers have anecdotally noted the presence of distinctive orange growth on fossil bones. It turns out that vibrant orange lichens—crusty little colonies that can comprise algae ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.

The hills of Transylvania hold a story that feels almost impossible to fit into the palm of your hand. In a muddy streambed of the Hațeg Basin in western Romania, paleontologists have uncovered a ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil from the Jurassic era turned up at a Montana dig site this year — unearthed not by a scientist, but by a Connecticut high school student. Aidan Connor, a senior at ...

Construction crews have helped excavate the first fossils in Dinosaur National Monument in more than 100 years. The bones, which belonged to a massive sauropod, were discovered during work on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But ...

An image shows the scaly skin of a crest over the back of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens, a specimen nicknamed "Ed Jr." by researchers. The juvenile is estimated to have ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

For the first time in over 100 years, fossils have been excavated from the parking lot of the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur ...

Beats finding a seashell.

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 ...