The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, home to the Tyrannosaurus rex holotype and a famous Diplodocus, will ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

The earliest known dinosaur fossils date back to approximately 230 million years ago. Recent research suggests that even older fossils may lie in uncharted territories around the globe, and ...

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

The researchers analyzed fossils, the geography of the time period and the evolutionary trees of dinosaurs and closely related reptiles to model possible biogeographic origin points. “So far, no ...

Nevertheless, clues from modern animals and a few exceptional fossils hint at the anatomical setup that would have determined how dinosaurs did it. Dinosaur skeletons outline where their ...

The remains were stored with other Egyptian dinosaur fossils at the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology, which at that time was located in a building in central Munich.

“The Egyptian dinosaur fossil depicted there differs significantly from more recent Carcharodontosaurus finds in Morocco,” he continued. “Stromer’s original classification was thus incorrec ...

Sloan said the biggest change in geology over the past four decades was the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics as a model to explain ... Sloan said. The fossil is about 65 million years old.

They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...

In an effort to boost awareness of the University of Alaska’s research success, a Fairbanks Republican has proposed that the ...