Exceptionally Preserved Bird Feathers Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Coprolite
Paleontologists in Montana have discovered remarkably preserved feathers of an ancient aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping,…
Paleontologists Discover First-Ever Adult Tyrannosaurus rex Trackway
Paleontologists in North Dakota have unearthed a set of 66.5-million-year-old fossilized footprints that can be confidently attributed to…
Fossil of Giant Squid-Like Creature from Cretaceous Period Bears Marks of Deadly Attack
Paleontologists studying a fossil unearthed in southern Manitoba, Canada, have identified what they believe are two bite marks…
Did Early Snakes Burrow, Swim or Crawl? 80‑Million‑Year‑Old Fossil Suggests: All Three
Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest…
Oldest Known Male Gecko Found Preserved in Kachin Amber
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from…
Tyrannosaurus rex Scavenged Duck-Billed Dinosaurs in Ancient Wyoming, Bite Marks Reveal
Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence that…
83-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Timeline of Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Discovery
A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of…
Four-Winged Dinosaur May Have Hunted Early Birds 120 Million Years Ago
Artistic reconstruction of Jian changmaensis, attacking an early bird. Credit: Lewis LaRosa/Jão Canola At a Cretaceous lake in what…
This Fossil Sat in Storage for 40 Years Before Scientists Realized It Was Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Bone
Dr Mike Thomson’s 1985 geological field notebook next to the dinosaur fossil vertebra found in Antarctica. Credit: British…
New Feathered Dinosaur from China Had Peacock-Like Tail
A new genus and species of four-winged pennaraptoran dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern China is adding…
125-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Relative Reveals Its True Colors
Exceptionally preserved skin of Montsecosuchus depereti, an extinct crocodylomorph no larger than a house cat that prowled the…
New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in Romania
An international team of paleontologists from Romania, Hungary and Italy has identified a new genus and species of…