Workers at Dinosaur National Monument uncovered a long-necked dinosaur fossil during asphalt removal.

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

Pileated woodpeckers can grow up to 17 inches long, thriving in large and decaying trees in old-growth forests across North ...

A fresh analysis of a fossil found almost 50 years ago reveals a newly described genus named for its "manipulating claw" ...

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

A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch ...

The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

The largest-ever study of how the “king of dinosaurs” grew shows a much longer, slower path to adulthood than scientists ...

For decades, scientists have searched for the dinosaur that truly surpassed all others in size. Several massive contenders have emerged, but most are known from incomplete or fragmentary fossils. As a ...

Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they ...

Contrary to popular belief, ammonites, ancient marine mollusks, survived the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

When scientists found these dinosaur eggs, they didn't only uncover a shiny surprise, but they also stumbled upon all-new ...