These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Fossil evidence reveals a surprising diversity in dinosaur parenting. Some species, like Maiasaura, exhibited strong maternal ...

A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will ...

A student discovers the first dragonfly fossil from the age of the dinosaurs in Canada. Cordualadensa acorni lived 75 million ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

This documentary uncovers the full evolutionary timeline of prehistoric creatures that shaped North America long before ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

This week, a 120-million-year-old dinosaur trackway has revealed the fastest Cretaceous theropod ever discovered, Little Foot, one of the most complete early hominin fossils, may actually be an ...

Discover how 210‑million‑year‑old dinosaur footprints in Stelvio National Park illuminate prosauropod behavior and today’s Alpine landscape.

The Olympics may have come from an ancient tradition, but not quite as old as the recently discovered dinosaur tracks in an ...

Climate change has been threatening the very existence of humankind. If it could lead to the disappearance of mighty ...