What looked like random grooves on a steep Italian cliff turned out to be footprints from nearly 80 million years ago.
"It was the top predator; that was its place in the food chain. There was none bigger or more dangerous than it." ...
Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator. They uncovered a piece of vertebra they said likely belonged to a mosasaur, ...
Paleontologists in southern France have uncovered one of the world’s most remarkable dinosaur nesting grounds, where hundreds ...
The nearly complete skull was found in 2001 in the Méndez Formation in Nuevo León, northeastern Mexico, dozens of kilometers ...
New dates for a long-debated New Mexico fossil site reveal that dinosaurs were thriving and regionally diverse until the end-Cretaceous asteroid strike 66 million years ago, according to a new study.
In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...
Dinosaur teeth discovered by a now retired quarryman have revealed a community of prehistoric predators that lived around 135 million years ago in an "exciting" discovery. Paleontologists examined ...