The Paleontological Research Institution may face closure by the end of the year if it cannot pay off a $3 million mortgage, ...

A new dinosaur species, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis, with an incredibly long neck rewrites the history of Jurassic dinosaurs ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The ...

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

Paleontologists may have uncovered the traces of a dinosaur that may have been limping, thanks to fossilized footprints preserved in stone for over 150 million years.

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — Dr. David Schwimmer, a professor and paleontologist at Columbus State University, worked with the Tellus ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

The Carreras Pampa site inside Torotoro National Park in central Bolivia has revealed more than 16,000 footprints by ...