In a study published in January, researchers confirmed the preservation of original organic molecules in Mesozoic dinosaur ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

New fossils provide clues How did wolves evolve into dogs? New fossils provide clues We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from We just learned where the asteroid that ended din ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously ...

A Cretaceous-era skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, has been confirmed as a member of the same order as ducks and geese, ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

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

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

“Pterosaur bones are very delicate – so finding fossils where another animal has clearly taken a bite is exceptionally ...

The dinosaur was about as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex and had a unique nasal horn and symmetrical teeth that it used to eat ...

Researchers from UCLA contributed to the study, using tandem mass spectrometry to detect and quantify—for the first time—the ...