A pivotal wrist bone in birds appears earlier in theropods. This could shift views on how flight evolved. An analysis of two ...

A newly discovered trove of fossilized footprints provides what may be the first evidence of prehistoric diversity in ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US's third president and founding father Thomas Jefferson in 1797.

A juvenile Ceratosaurus, one of only four known specimens of the rare Jurassic carnivore, sold for $30.5 million at a Sotheby ...

A juvenile dinosaur fossil, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, has sold at Sotheby's New York for US$30.5 million (£22.7 million). It ...

From auction houses to the emergence of online retailers, the fossil trade risks robbing the world of research and educational opportunities Few people know that the great auction houses of the United ...

This left a gap in the fossil record, but Petrified Forest National Park didn’t get its name for nothing: The volcanic ash that burst from California’s Mojave Desert ended up in northeast Arizona’s ...

A juvenile dinosaur fossil, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, has sold at Sotheby’s New York for US$30.5 million (£22.7 million). It is part of a recent resurgence of art-market interest in fossils and natural ...

NEW YORK — The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological ...

Nicole Mercuri, 26, was walking along a Florida beach when she spotted a giant tooth that once belonged to a Megalodon, a ...

A juvenile Ceratosaurus skeleton sells for $30.5 million at Sotheby’s, becoming the third-priciest fossil ever auctioned. Here’s why it stunned experts.