Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

Lake sturgeon, the largest of all Great Lakes fish and as ancient as dinosaurs, once thrived in the river until overfishing ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Fossils identified as a new species after being discovered in Wyoming are estimated to be around 230 million years old.

Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The dinosaur was about as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a unique nasal horn and symmetrical teeth that it used to eat ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

In the process, they discovered "dinosaur-like" footprints in even older rocks, indicating that other dinosaur species existed ... which is seen in dinosaurs and their closest relatives.

Wang Min, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, speaks ...