For more than 40 years, an area of Cretaceous rock exposures in northwest Montana, often called “Egg Mountain,” has been the site of exciting fossil discoveries, including ones by paleontologists from ...

A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a crocodile ancestor.

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

The director of the Orton Geological Museum in Columbus, Ohio, will deliver the annual Darwin Lecture at the University of ...

A fossil hunter found a lump of prehistoric vomit roughly dated to the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the ...

Have you ever wished that you, your family and your friends could visit the UC Davis campus and chat with the scientists ...

Until now, the largest known hadrosaurid skeleton belonged to Shantungosaurus, discovered in Shandong province, China, which ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

A juvenile pterosaur fossil found in Canada shows a crocodile bite from 76 million years ago, offering rare evidence of ...

UW-Madison geology museum scientist Dave Lovelace’s 21st birthday was a bit unconventional. The Casper, Wyoming, native who ...

The fossil, examined under a microscope and with micro-CT scans, has a conical puncture a sixth of an inch (4 mm) wide that ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...