Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks ...

More than a century of fossils pulled from the ground told a straightforward story: dinosaurs thrived, then declined, then vanished in a fiery cataclysm 66 million years ago. The idea is that ...

Behind the daily stream of geopolitical tensions and conflicts, 2025 also offered new perspectives on humanity’s connection ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

Researchers show that tiny armored dinosaur fossils, Liaoningosaurus paradoxus, were actually baby ankylosaurs.

A rare fossil from Thailand identifies a 25-foot spinosaurid that lived along river systems 125 million years ago.

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

How do we know the fossils are young ankylosaurs? Because the remains of Liaoningosaurus were all similar in size, it was hard to rule out the possibility that they were miniature adult ankylosaurs ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

A museum display of the giant crocodile Deinosuchus schwimmeri showcases a 30-foot-long apex predator from the Cretaceous ...

The skull contains bones that researchers have never seen before. A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will not be on ...