For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A recent study found that 71 scientifically valuable Tyrannosaurus rex specimens, including 14 juveniles, are in private ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

A Tyrannosaurus rex researcher has found that there are now more scientifically valuable T. rex specimens in private or ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

Fossils of the T. rex are increasingly becoming unavailable for research because of private collections, scientists warn in ...

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils. The find sheds more light on the diversity of two-legged theropod dinosaurs ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Then, they learn how scientists typically classify fossils and practice sorting the teeth by species ... we host a weeklong ...