(NewsNation) — More Tyrannosaurus rex fossils are landing in the hands of wealthy private collectors through the luxury auction market, which is affecting how many of the treasured species are being ...

Around 120 to 130 million years ago, northeast China was home to a lush landscape filled with temperate forests, lakes, and diverse wildlife. Today, this ancient ecosystem, preserved in the Yixian ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – One thing that northwestern New Mexico is known for is lots of dinosaur fossils. Previously, paleontologists estimated that the fossils in the Birsti Badlands were 70 million years ...

Pioneering techniques used in this research may soon be applied to other dinosaur fossils and alter the course of ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

Paleontologists are being forced to compete with rich collectors for access to dinosaur skeletons. When it comes to T. rexes in particular, the outcome is predictable, and science is suffering, a new ...

Yet, discoveries of tumors in dinosaur fossils, particularly in large-bodied hadrosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period, are reshaping our understanding. Dinosaurs, like modern elephants and whales, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A fossil find adds another twig to the human evolutionary tree, giving further evidence that the well-known “Lucy” species had company in what is now Ethiopia, a new study says. A ...

The fossils were found in flooded caves in the Dominican Republic. The cache, including seven skulls, five mandibles (jawbones) and dozens of other skeleton parts, makes the fossil site, Cueva Macho, ...

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained their original organic molecules as the fossilisation process was thought to destroy them. However, a groundbreaking study, led ...