UW-Madison geology museum scientist Dave Lovelace’s 21st birthday was a bit unconventional. The Casper, Wyoming, native who ...

While scientists have long puzzled over fossils, the discovery of this cave painting might forever change the perception of paleontology as a field.

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could ...

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other ...

The specimen is far from complete – only two tiny bones from an animal that would’ve only been a foot tall ... That’s why Lovelace’s research has focused on the much earlier rocks from the Triassic ...

Grief has long thought to be a human trait, but other animals – from killer whales to crows – also appear to suffer loss when a companion dies. Last week, a female killer whale was spotted off ...