Newfound fossils demonstrate that the dinosaur's tail was well suited for swimming—bolstering the case that Spinosaurus spent much of its time in the water. JASON TREAT, NG STAFF; MESA SCHUMACHER.

Geologist Bob Simon holds a serrated tooth from a torvosaurus, a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic era about 150 million years ago. The fossil was found on a ranch near ...

Scientists have learned more about the ancient animals in the last 25 years than in the previous 250—from the color of their skin and feathers to how they lived and evolved.

Buried in Spanish rock for over 150 million years, this extraordinary fossil belongs to Dacentrurus armatus, a stegosaur species that roamed what is now Europe during the Late Jurassic period. The ...

Paleontologists of both the academic and commercial varieties are expressing concern that another multimillion-dollar auction ...

But now, paleontologists have the first direct evidence of the dinosaurs’ diets, thanks to a layer of plant that survived in a fossil’s gut for at least 94 million years.

Monument Rocks Chalk Pyramids in Kansas offer one of the best fossil hunting experiences in the Midwest. Explore ancient sea ...

India-West News Desk NEW DELHI – Fossils unearthed during the construction of a water pipeline in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have uncovered a bizarre dinosaur with a fearsome pair of curved claws.

A team of researchers has uncovered plant remains in the abdomen of a sauropod, providing direct evidence of their ...

Good for a laugh To record the unusual event of removing a dinosaur fossil with a team of horses, Cary Woodruff borrowed a drone with a 360-degree camera to capture aerial footage.

Seeing dinosaur fossils on site is thrilling-for adults as well as children. The company Dinosaur Trips enables that, ...

The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...