"He thought the baby’s and mom’s belly buttons 'snapped' together — he had no clue what an umbilical cord was." ...

A pair of jaws found in phosphate reveal the existence of a new duck-billed dinosaur, Taleta taleta, that thrived just before ...

Shoebill birds can reach a height of five feet, but the prehistoric-looking creatures generally aren't taller than people.

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

A team of palaeontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, have discovered and described a brand-new ...

A new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur has been identified from the fossil remains found in southern Brazil.

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking way to measure time in the distant past—by dating fossilized dinosaur eggshells.

Scientists have identified a new crocodile precursor that looked deceptively dinosaur-like and hunted with speed and ...

A newly discovered, carnivorous lizard ostensibly represents what most casual onlookers would perhaps perceive to be a ...

R esearchers have unearthed a giant "warrior" lizard that stalked Brazil 240 million years ago in the Triassic period, just ...

The American Museum of Natural History is opening a sweeping new exhibition, "Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs," on November 17, tracing how a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped ...