Duck-like dinosaur fossil, plucked from black market, makes debut
What has flippers like a penguin, a neck like a swan and a posture like a duck? It’s the newly discovered Halszkaraptor escuilliei or “Halszka”– a bizarre, semi-aquatic dinosaur with a collage of features never seen in any other prehistoric…
These flying prehistoric reptiles had needy babies, rare batch of eggs show
A treasure trove of ancient eggs reveals how flying reptiles called pterosaurs developed in infanthood and how parents took care of their young.
How climate change is making these bamboo-eating lemurs go hungry
Climate change is starving out Madagascar's greater bamboo lemur, a study published Thursday reports in Current Biology.
Amber fossils tell 99 million-year-old story of unusual baby birds
A pair of 99 million-year-old fossils reveal Cretaceous baby birds with finger claws and adultlike feathers.
X-ray scans of a 305-million-year old fossil have unlocked a new chapter in the spider origin story.
Starting this weekend, visitors to New York's American Museum of Natural History can get close up view of what scientists believe may be the biggest creature to have ever walked the earth. The discovery represents huge gains for modern paleontology.
The biggest creature to ever walk the surface of the earth invaded New York City’s American Museum of Natural History on Friday—a dinosaur species so new that it hasn’t even been named, with a skeleton so big that it doesn’t…
Paleontologists have discovered an ancient human relative in South Africa thanks to a tricky cave diving excavation that recovered close to 1,550 fossils buried 100 feet underground.
This summer’s blockbuster “Jurassic World” ruffled the feathers of many a paleontologist when the movie’s depiction of several dinosaurs, namely the ferocious Velociraptor, lacked, well, feathers.
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