Paleontology News

LONDON: A group of scientists, including one of Indian origin, has discovered "world's first bird" that lived 235 million years ago.

A dinosaur's life was not easy. Volatile pre-historic terrain, harsh climate conditions, insufficient food and water, as well as unrelenting enemy predators made survival anything but a given.

Brachiosaurus, at a whopping 35 feet tall, is just one of the species of dinosaurs that takes center stage at TD Banknorth Garden.

Scientists in Panama have unearthed hundreds of animal fossils dating back 20 million years, which could shed more light on how and when the American continent became connected.

Anthropology is an age-old, at times complex discipline, and like many others, it suffers from its fair share of in-fighting and disagreement.

Category: Dinosaurs Paleontology Posted on: July 14, 2008 11:00 AM, by Brian Switek The type skull of Velociraptor mongoliensis .

Since most hominin fossils are incomplete, or filled with a heavy calcified matrix, it is difficult or often impossible to reconstruct the endocast in a real fossil without destroying it.

READ ME: I'M NEW! With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long, happy hours in the library, hunched over his laptop.

A new study of extinct flying reptiles called kuehneosaurs, has shown that of the of the two genera found in Britain, Kuehneosuchus was a glider while Kuehneosaurus, with much shorter "wings," was a ...

The experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to classify and display thousands of species -- from birds and mammals to insects, dinosaurs and snakes -- and are confident they ...

Edinburgh, July 14: Paleontologists have found near-identical dinosaur footprints dating back to 165 million years in Skye's Trotternish peninsula in Scotland and the arid plains of Wyoming in the US, which ...

Digging for Late Cretaceous fossils in Garland? That's exactly what more than two dozen volunteers did Sunday while in the hot heat.

But try creating a life-sized, moving replica of the extinct giants without the help of CGI.

THE arid plains of Wyoming and the rugged, rain-soaked mountains of Skye are a world apart, but scientists now believe the two areas were once so close together they formed a giant playground for some of the ...

Ford has contributed the company's expertise in rapid parts prototyping to help bring "Leonardo"- a 77-million-year-old duckbill dinosaur - to life for researchers and potentially millions of museum visitors ...

Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia.

It is 9pm at London's cavernous old Natural History Museum and I'm leaning against a marble column, beer in hand, under the eye of a giant fossilised fish.

The prize for the most enthusiastic presenter at the summer meeting of the television critics meeting here so far goes to Dr.

More families are looking for entertainment options closer to home, and coming this fall, 65 million years of history will be at your doorstep.

A North Dakota kid who has made worldwide headlines with his discovery in the badlands is back to help others do the same thing... Tyler Lyson discovered "Dakota Mummy" when he was only a sophomore in high ...