Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they ...

Scientists aren't sure, but a newly-discovered fossil of a 220-million-year-old turtle seems to tip the scale toward aquatic evolution, and may help explain how turtles evolved their shells.

A 20-foot-long set of stegosaurus bones is expected to be among the most expensive fossils ever sold when it’s auctioned off ...

A new study involving Christian Bartel and Jason Dunlop from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and Sonja Wedmann from the ...

Extinct colossal cat Acinonyx pleistocaenicus was the biggest species of cheetah to have ever lived, scientists reveal.

It appears this Tyrannosaurus was about 13-15 years old, two-thirds adult size ... were wiped out 66 million years ago after ...

A team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil of a gigantic flying reptile from the Jurassic period with an estimated wingspan of more than three meters—making it one of the largest pterosaurs ...

The Stegosaurus, a spike-tailed herbivore species that roamed the earth during the Late Jurassic period, is perhaps the best-known of the armored dinosaurs. Now, the largest and most complete fossil ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For nearly two million years ... More than 60 years ago, a scientist came across a fossil of the cat on a Beaumont beach in the southeastern part of the state.

A remarkable fossil finding in Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe has led to a new dinosaur species being named by researchers: Musankwa ...