A remote stretch of the central Sahara, deep in the deserts of Niger, does not look like a place that once held rivers, ...

A Carnegie Museum of Natural History paleontologist co-led the discovery of a new predatory dinosaur species, Jian changmaensis, from northwestern China.

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Earlier this summer, researchers announced they found fossils that likely come from courting dinosaurs. To find more fossil evidence of prehistoric animals wooing and mating, scientists will have to ...

Dome-headed dinosaurs, officially called pachycephalosaurs, are one of the “most enigmatic” creatures from the Cretaceous (145 million to 66 million years ago). While these herbivores often appear in ...

Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the age of these reptiles? Is this also an accurate ...

Darla Zelenitsky, a paleontologist and associate professor in the Faculty of Science, and Jared Voris, a PhD candidate, have identified a new species of dinosaur named Khankhuuluu. They, along with a ...

Paleontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada. The results are announced in a ...

New research reveals that Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach its massive adult size, challenging previous beliefs about its rapid growth and shedding light on its prolonged development and ...