A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a ...

It’s hard to pick a favorite dish on your Thanksgiving plate. But regardless of your selection, there’s a decent chance its ...

Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

In the cliffsides and dried-up arroyos of Northwestern New Mexico, deposits of sandstone and mudstone contain traces of a ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Here’s how scientists are solving the “dinosaur death pose” mystery and others. This specimen of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx exhibits what paleontologists call the dinosaur death pose or the ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

Over 250 million years ago the planet went through the worst mass extinction in history. In the aftermath, life took millions of years to recover. But newly uncovered fossils on an Arctic island ...