New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

The jaws are small enough to hold in your hand. But the animal they belonged to may have stretched 62 feet from arm tip to ...

For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be, and the ...

A South Dakota hiker’s chance encounter with a fossilized row of teeth jutting from parched soil has unveiled a ...

Tyrannosaurs may be famous as fearsome apex predators, but new research reveals a more opportunistic—and slightly grim—side to their behavior. Using high-resolution 3D scans, a researcher identified ...

In an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilized feces of dinosaurs. These analyses of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth ...

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

Scientists can learn a lot about extinct animals by studying their footprints, bones and even teeth. But, while insightful, these artifacts don’t always paint a complete picture of an ancient creature ...

The Mesozoic pterosaur is considered to be the first vertebrate to achieve powered flight and new evidence, also the first of its kind, helps to pin down what exactly this flying reptile ate.

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument could provide new insight into how prehistoric animals lived in Oregon. The ...

Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago.Researchers aren't sure whether dinosaurs' rise over ...