Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the ...

A newfound site in the Italian Alps holds one of the largest collections of Triassic dinosaur footprints ever seen ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Scientists recently announced newly described dome-headed dinosaur species, the most complete skeleton of its kind ever found ...

Fossils are remarkable for their ability to viscerally connect us with long-lost life. The bulk of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, ...

The BYU Museum of Paleontology is marking its 50th anniversary this year, a milestone for the BYU Department of Geological ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

SCIENTISTS have made a cracking discovery after uncovering mysterious impressions of reptile skin from almost 300million ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...