Fossil evidence shows they were diverse ... Russell’s idea was based on the Troodon, a small, bird-like dinosaur with a relatively large brain, stereoscopic vision, and grasping fingers.

A North Dakota jury ordered the environmental group to pay pipeline company Energy Transfer nearly $700 million in damages in the yearslong pipeline lawsuit. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ...

A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct. Prototaxites, which lived ...

(Fossil) Fossil Group is looking for its next chapter under new leadership, even as it makes even deeper cuts and grapples with falling sales. The Richardson-based retailer, which sells watches ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

Oil and gas giant BP has again slashed its renewable energy investment and announced more funding for greater fossil fuel production. In a further row back of climate targets the company has said ...

From left to right: Paleontologist Alex Hastings holds up a fossil of a giant beaver's head on Sunday at Bad Weather Brewing in St. Paul. Paleontologist Alex Hastings held up a fossilized animal ...