A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

A new look at the "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil reveals that Tyrannosaurus rex was not the only tyrannosaur roaming the land.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science already houses a vast trove of dinosaur bones, but it recently received an unexpected addition to the collection. The latest fossil didn’t come from a generous ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science made a surprise discovery during a project on the museum's parking lot: a 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil. The fossil was discovered in January as the ...

Scientists discovered that some dinosaur “mummies," such as Edmontosaurus annectens, weren’t preserved skin but clay molds ...

In a new paper in Science, experts from the University of Chicago describe steps that took place some 66 million years ago to ...

An oil pipeline crew in Canada unearthed a 100-foot-long fossilized dinosaur skeleton this week, when a backhoe operator excavating soil accidentally broke off a piece of the creature’s tail.

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

Dinosaur discoveries are nothing new in Colorado, but this one took scientists by surprise because it was found beneath a dinosaur museum’s own parking lot. While drilling 763 feet into the ground as ...

Traditional fossil studies focus heavily on bones, but bones alone rarely reveal details about diseases at a molecular level. Recently, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University and Imperial College ...