This fossil-rich area in present day Montana ... enough for these birds to pick up small mammals and potentially baby dinosaurs. [Related: The first true flying vertebrates walked before they ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

Artist's rendition of a Psittacosaurus dinosaur with babies being hunted by Repenomamus, a mammal. One fossil assemblage from the Yixian Formation preserved the remains of these species in mortal ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It was thought to be caused by a volcanic eruption. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.

In 2020, a team of scientists from Argentina and China went to Argentinian Patagonia searching for dinosaur fossils, but instead found hundreds of fossilized frogs of the extinct species Notobatrachus ...

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists ...

The researchers determined that these fossils dated to a condensed period of about 125.8 million years ago, spanning less ...

The metropolis is an important center for paleontological research, but until now, fossils of plants and fish were the only ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested.

A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found.

The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...