By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, ...

You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, ...

Scientists explain which dinosaur was the fasted using simulations. Fossil footprints can't accurately capture a dinosaur’s ...

"The fastest dinosaur was likely an Ornithomimosauria," Susannah Maidment, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in ...

The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...

More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the ...

Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture,” one paleontologist said, but it’s a rich source of prehistoric ...

Over the past two decades, dinosaur fossils has become a prized collection category and it's hampering scientific research.

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