Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously ...
Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have long been destroyed.
For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic molecules as the fossilization ...
The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.
Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...
To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...
Fossils provide scientists with a few clues about how dinosaurs mated, had sex, and reproduced, but much is still left to the ...
For many years, it has been widely believed that fossils no longer contained their original organic molecules as the fossilization process was thought to destroy them. Now, a groundbreaking study, led ...
The bone was unearthed by researchers from the University of Reading.
Stromer and his colleagues drew and photographed some of its bones and decided ... which was among the largest dinosaurs ever discovered. But in 1944, the fossils’ fortunes changed when Allied ...
About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, ...
France’s varied geology makes it fertile ground for dinosaur fossil hunters, but many finds have only been unearthed in the last 20 years, with French palaeontologists only recently becoming ...