This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

The dinosaur was about as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a unique nasal horn and symmetrical teeth that it used to eat ...

Scientists have discovered a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species by examining photos of a fossil lost during an allied air ...

There’s a gooey time capsule in the heart of Los Angeles, left over from an era when saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, camels, ...

Nearly a century after a collection of dinosaur fossils were discovered by a collector in Egypt and brought to Germany, newly rediscovered photographs suggest the bones belong to a species new to ...

A “ serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric ...

One of the trackways was made by a Megalosaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur that walked on two legs, according to the university. Megalosaurus had large, clawed feet, with three toes on each foot.

“That’s one of the things that our lab has focused on over the last decade and the reason this dinosaur took over 10 years to publish.” The tiny fossils of Ahvaytum were found in 2013. The defining ...

In addition to the fossil remains, researchers also found “early dinosaur-like tracks” in older rocks, which means reptiles were in the region “a few million years” before Ahvaytum ...