At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million ...

A museum display of the giant crocodile Deinosuchus schwimmeri showcases a 30-foot-long apex predator from the Cretaceous ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

A McGill University student has made an extraordinary discovery—a 75-million-year-old dragonfly fossil from the late ...

A student discovers the first dragonfly fossil from the age of the dinosaurs in Canada. Cordualadensa acorni lived 75 million ...

It's a bit of fun, even if for the vast majority the answer was "somewhere in an ocean". But would it be possible to dig through the Earth and pop out the other side?

Scientists in China have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in paleontology by successfully dating dinosaur eggs directly for the first time, revealing these ancient fossils to be 85.91 million years ...

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...

Egg clutch sampled for chronological studies. Credit Dr. Bi Zhao Researchers dated dinosaur eggs directly for the first time, placing them at 85 million years old. The findings link climate cooling to ...

Hands wearing knitted gloves hold a small drill in one hand and a rubber bulb in the other. The instruments are poised over a fossilized dinosaur egg. A researcher takes a sample from a dinosaur egg ...