—166 million-year-old fossil found on Isle of Skye belongs to pony-size dinosaur from Jurassic. Among the 8,000 fossil records examined, the team found that Ceratopsians — a group that ...

Old Protein in Fossils of Extinct Hippos and Elephants. Over the years, scientists have made incredible progress in extracting ancient DNA from fos ...

Jurassic Park would certainly sound different.

A 225-million-year-old leg bone from Zambia is helping scientists rethink the size, diversity, and role of early dinosaurs.

On July 23, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science hosted a Science Spotlight, highlighting Alaina Wiwi — a paleoartist for the “Hall of Ancient Life.” The exhibit opened in February ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...

However, at face value, the fossils available for study from this time — more than 8,000 — suggest the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago and then declined in the 9 ...

The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, to the lesser known duck-billed Maiasaura ...

By using dinosaurs' close reptilian cousins to close gaps in the fossil record, a new model points to an ancient supercontinent as the birthplace of the extinct creatures. Monique Merrill / January 23 ...

A drilling project at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science has unearthed a dinosaur fossil dating back 70 million years.