Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Research on the Anchiornis specimen reveals hidden ...

In the skull of Archaeopteryx, researchers uncovered new features that may have helped the ancient creature obtain and ...

Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...

The horned species, named Spinosaurus mirabilis, had scimitar-shaped crests on the back that were sheathed in keratin. The ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University examined dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers and found that ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it up. In November 2019, a 20-person team working in Niger collected that crest ...

Scientists were “astonished” to find a new species of Spinosaurus with a scimitar-shaped bony crest—uncovered in the Sahara ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil reveals a newly discovered dinosaur covered in unusual spikes scientists have never seen before.

A newly examined prehistoric shark from the age of dinosaurs provides surprising insights into the early evolution of modern sharks. It cannot be confidently assigned to any shark order that exists ...

India's rich fossil heritage reveals ancient life, from dinosaur nesting grounds in Gujarat to marine fossils in the ...