Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...
Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or ...
A recent study published in Earth Science Reviews examines how both the shine and excellent preservation of fossils discovered at Germany’s Posidonia Shale is not the result of pyrite (aka fool’s gold ...
Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...
A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest salmon in Arctic Alaska’s Cretaceous fossil. During the Cretaceous Period, ...
On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...
A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...
A rare set of spider fossils found in southern France has revealed an unusual way nature managed to keep them intact for ...
Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within the dinosaur's mouth.
Work based on data from the Australian Astronomical Observatory has discounted one route for forming stars. The work is this week’s cover story in the journal Nature [7 October 2010]. In their paper ( ...