Analysis - For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa.

WINONA, Minn. — It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could ...

Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

An ultra-rare dinosaur skeleton is being auctioned in London, sparking debate about the ethics of selling specimens with ...

A single tiny footprint, pressed into mud roughly 100 million years ago, has given paleontologists an unexpectedly intimate ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock ...

Researchers have reclassified a long-misidentified fossil from New Mexico as Ahshiselsaurus wimani, a newly recognized giant duck-billed dinosaur that offers fresh insights into hadrosaur evolution ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

The size of the prints can estimate the size of the theropod, while the space between prints can suggest the speed of their ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...