Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric ...

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a ...

Patrick began fossil hunting as a teen; on one of their first dates, he and Annie went searching for dinosaur eggs. Once simmering, the debate over who gets to hunt for dinosaur fossils has become ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...

A group of Earth scientists believes they probably were not. While it’s true that fossils from the final dinosaur era are comparatively rare compared to those that came before, it seems the ...

The museum's paleontology exhibit showcases fossils from the Ice Age to the late Triassic Period, including some of the earliest dinosaurs found in North America. Researchers at the museum ...

The discovery of the most complete fossil of Mixodectes pungens to date provides key insights into the post-dinosaur diversification of mammals and their evolutionary connection to primates and humans ...

However, at face value, the fossils available for study from this time — more than 8,000 — suggest the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago and then declined in the 9 ...

What makes this discovery even more significant is the fossil’s age. It dates back to the Carboniferous Period, which was over 300 million years ago—long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

A pair of fossilized footprints left by meat-eating dinosaurs from the dinosaur family called megalosaurs ... important not only because it dates to a time underrepresented in the fossil record but ...