Learn how the tiny dinosaur fossil from Patagonia reshapes alvarezsaur evolution and their unusual digging claws.

For ninety million years, a two-pound skeleton lay hidden in the red sandstones of Patagonia.

Studying ancient mammals helps scientists understand how life evolved and adapted over millions of years. Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, ...

It's extremely rare to find a complete skeleton of a dinosaur. It's rarer still that such a skeleton needs to be found twice. Such is the fate of "Stan" the T. rex, a massive, mostly complete skeleton ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

This amethyst geode weighs 1,933 pounds and is 44 inches long. Fossils, purple geodes, and more are hitting the auction block during Heritage’s Nature & Science Auction on December 2. “This is an ...

NEW YORK -- The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small, 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the ...

Scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have announced the discovery and description of an extinct rhinoceros from the Canadian High Arctic. The nearly complete fossil skeleton of the new ...

A group of paleontologists unearthed the most complete fossil of a new species of a famed dome-headed dinosaur to date during a dig in Mongolia. The team found the pristine skeleton in the Khuren Dukh ...

Fossil skeleton of the daytime active owl Miosurnia diurna from China (below) with an expanded view of the skull (top left). The eye bones or scleral ossicles are false colored blue and set in ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...