A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within the dinosaur's mouth.

The hadrosaur would have lived in the same ecosystem as armored ankylosaurids, horned dinosaurs like the Navajoceratops, as ...

The dinosaur’s bones are being held at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco. There are no plans to put the ...

"In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them," the ...

A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...

Hollywood has used artistic license to take some liberties with dinosaurs, but new research may expose what these prehistoric ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of ...

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...

Forget the badlands and deserts. Some of the world’s most important fossil discoveries are hiding in New Jersey’s suburbs.