A few months ago, we told you about the largest di...  ...onths ago, we told you about the largest dinosaur fossils ever found, discovered in La Flecha, Patagonia, A...  ...ooth -a much more complete set of bones than most fossil finds.Today an international team of paleontologi...  ...) measured. And its discov...

At one time, it seemed silly to think that birds d...  ...ill hard to picture T. rex with feathers. As more fossils and more species are discovered, we get a glimpse...  ...as avian, such as gizzard in place of teeth. But fossils of Hongshanornis, a bird only discovered in the 2...  ...rding to a 2014 report on...

Scientists who study the origins of cats have a pu...  ...r 6 million years ago, while paleontologists have fossils going back only 3.8 million years, and they were...  ...ounced a new cat species, Panthera blytheae, from fossils that range from 4 to 6 million years old. The dis...

The premise of the movie Jurassic Park is that din...  ...iversity of Arizona, collected hundreds of insect fossils in Montana and stored them in his parents' baseme...  ...red biochemist Dale Greenwalt has been collecting fossils for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, an...  ...the Constenius family dec...

Photo: Royal Saskatchewan Museum...  ...tchewan Museum is sending a replica of its prized fossilized dinosaur poop (or "coprolite," in polit...  ...what is now southwest Saskatchewan. The original fossil will remain in Eastend. Scientists say m...

Humanity, meet your new grandpa:...  ...ams, has become the earliest known primate in the fossil record. Archicebus achilles lived on a humid, t...  ...s, apes and humans. Scientists found the fossil , whose name translates as "ancient monkey&qu...  ...evidence that its diet consisted of insects...

If you discovered a new species of prehistoric art...  ...discovered a new species of prehistoric arthropod fossil with scissor-like appendages, what you you name i...  ...hen I first saw the pair of isolated claws in the fossil records of this species I could not help but thin...  ...r David Legg, who conducted...

Photo: Brett Eloff/Lee R. Berger/Univers...  ..., South Africa, when he stumbled upon a fossilized bone. He ran to his dad, paleoanthropol...  ...arch papers on the two-million-year-old fossils were published in this week's edition of Science:...

Photo: Carl Bento/Australian Museum...  ...Bento/Australian Museum Surely you've seen fossils in museums, but what about this: opalized...  ...this: opalized dinosaur tooth. Opalized fossils occur when silica settled into cracks i...

A fossil uncovered in Africa over 70 years ago has led to...  ...aurus parringtoni. In the 1930s, Rex Carringon, a fossil hunter from Cambridge, first made the find in sou...  ...until 1975 that one of his students mentioned the fossil fossilized...