Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

When we think of dinosaurs, fierce giants like Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) or long-necked sauropods usually come to mind.

When the dinosaurs went extinct, the planet didn’t become peaceful. A massive power vacuum opened almost overnight. In South ...

Fossil evidence reveals a surprising diversity in dinosaur parenting. Some species, like Maiasaura, exhibited strong maternal ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Quetzalcoatlus northropi has been estimated at various weights. Some estimates are as low as 100 KG (220 lbs) and as high as ...

Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, ...

In a study of fossils, a research team led by evolutionary biologist and Johns Hopkins Medicine assistant professor Matteo Fabbri suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ...

A tiny prehistoric bird from the early Cretaceous has turned into one of the strangest death scenes in the fossil record, its last moments frozen with a throat packed full of stones. The animal, ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

The Carreras Pampa site inside Torotoro National Park in central Bolivia has revealed more than 16,000 footprints by ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t sure why. Like many recent fossil “discoveries,” researchers with the Field ...