Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct ...

Some 200 million years ago, a 12-ton dinosaur that was double the size of an African elephant stomped around South Africa. In ...

“Fossil dinosaur footprints tend to be vastly under-rated even by ... Storke Memorial Professor of Earth & Environmental ...

Hidden behind a strip mall and headed by a rock star paleontologist, the Edelman explores South Jersey's place in history as ...

Lacovara, an esteemed geologist who has found and excavated some of the biggest dinosaurs on earth, said EFM is a standout because of its connection to a real fossil site. "The museum is built ...

Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ...

A palaeontologist explains. Did all dinosaurs become extinct — killed when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago? Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.

Travelers can dig up 66-million-year-old dinosaur fossils in New Jersey or mine for diamonds at an Arizona state park. See ...