The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science announced Tuesday that two of its paleontologists had identified a new ...

A bird egg can look surprisingly oversized for the body that produced it. That puzzle becomes even stranger when viewed ...

A fossil bed in northwestern China is littered with the remains of hundreds of prehistoric birds—including some whose broken bones were crushed into pellets, similar to those coughed up by modern owls ...

The smallest known non-bird dinosaurs were far larger than the tiniest mammals, birds, and reptiles alive today. Energy-based ...

The oldest known bird was closer to a dinosaur than previously thought – a discovery that confuses the evolutionary tree as we currently understand it. An exceptionally well preserved new fossil ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide slammed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, ...

The record for the oldest feathered dinosaur, which has stood for almost 150 years since the discovery of Archaeopteryx, has finally fallen to an even older fossil unearthed in China, shedding new ...

Millions of years before roads connected modern cities, dinosaurs were already following well-worn routes across ancient ...