Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

But despite Griffin’s statement, some paleontologists aren’t too happy about the trend of fossils going up for auction. The sale of dinosaur fossils has become more and more profitable in recent years ...

The fossilized remains of a huge sea monster known as a mosasaur were recently discovered in Texas. The land of what is now ...

Photo courtesy of Karen Chin To gaze upon a full T. rex skeleton is to be transported back in time. Dinosaur fossils are key to understanding what these prehistoric creatures looked like, how they ...

Sep. 18, 2024 — A researcher has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The theory suggests that fossils of Protoceratops – a species of early ...

The layers of fossil-rich rock date to the end of the Cretaceous period and contain a valuable record of the world just before the dinosaurs became extinct. Many scientifically important fossils ...

Early Dingoes Are Related to Dogs from New Guinea and East Asia Sep. 18, 2024 — New archaeological research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian ...

KOBE—Fossils found in Hyogo Prefecture are of a new genus and species of primitive ceratopsian, a plant-eating beaked dinosaur from about 110 million years ago, researchers said. The research ...

MIFUNE, Kumamoto Prefecture--Fossils excavated here about 20 years ago were confirmed to be dinosaur eggs, the first such findings in the Kyushu region, a museum said. They were the also first ...

Then when we go to those places, there should be some chance of finding a dinosaur.' Topographic maps can also be useful in the hunt for fossils. These show vertical depth as well as man-made ...

Although dinosaurs lived many millions of years ago, we know that they existed because some of them turned into fossils when they died. Watch our animation to discover how this happened, and explore ...