In a fossil-rich region of northeastern China, a well-preserved specimen of an ancient flying reptile has brought new clarity to a long-standing question in palaeontology. For decades, researchers ...

In December 2024, researchers published a paper in Paelontologia Electronica detailing an incredible fossil discovery — the 45-million-year-old skull of a Diatryma, a genus of giant flightless bird.

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Illustration: Brian Engh From a small ...

A GIANT duck-billed dino dubbed a “cow of the Cretaceous” that was unknown to science has been found. The mammoth beast would ...

Prehistoric Takeover, returns to Blackpool this January with a brand-new, interactive live experience packed with ...

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

The growth plates, known as specimens UAMN3760 and UAMN3724, were discovered near Fairbanks in the early 1950s. University of Alaska Museum of the North In the early 1950s, naturalist Otto Geist was ...

A team of paleontologists has identified, on two pterosaur specimens, four types of feathers shared by dinosaurs and modern ...

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