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.

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

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

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

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

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

The Carreras Pampas tracksite in Torotoro National Park, Bolivia, has set a new world record with the largest collection of ...

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

Scientists in Bolivia have uncovered a record-breaking 18,000 dinosaur footprints and swim tracks, setting a new global ...

Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone ...