Paleontology News

A dinosaur expert from Queensland's central west says he was stunned to learn he had been named as a finalist in the prestigious Queensland Australian of the Year Award.

An application to develop an open-air dinosaur tracks museum on property at the corner of U.S. 191 and state Route 313 was tabled earlier this month by the Grand County Planning and Zoning Commission.

A vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were smashed underfoot by other dinosaurs shortly after they died, according to paleontologists.

Go back to the prehistoric era and learn a thing or two about the creatures that roamed the earth at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

SIXTEEN years after Pablo Escobar died in a hail of bullets, crowds of tourists are descending on his luxurious ranch to celebrate the tacky taste and violent times of South America's most notorious drug lord.

Five ancient fossils recently found in China have added new evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

We've had a few dinosaur bones collected in New Zealand. Now footprints are adding to the picture.

A new hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, has been discovered in Huesca, Spain, scientists at the University of Basque Country said.

Dinosaurs Unearthed's experts contend that the world's current fine, feathered friends started out as scaly, reptilian creatures with quills and plumes.

This dinosaur print in Plagne, France, said by scientists to be one of the biggest in the world, measures around 1.5 meters in diameter.

The plan, proposed by an international consortium of scientists, is to obtain, preserve, and sequence the DNA of approximately one species for each genus of living mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

Most notable among these fossils is the discovery of a new hadrosaur, the Arenysaurus ardevoli , found in Huesca, Spain.

FOSSIL fuels have a new crime to live down. A frenzy of hydrocarbon burning at the end of the Permian period may have led to the most devastating mass extinction Earth has ever seen, as explosive encounters between magma and coal released more carbon dioxide in the course of a few years than in all of human history.

Before there were flowers, pollination of plants by insects was likely rare, and scientists had no idea of the insect culprits. But a new discovery suggests at least one flittering pollinator.

A spectacular Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta.

New fossil discoveries, improved scientific methods and a different classification system have helped increase the body of knowledge about dinosaurs and produced conclusions that wouldn't have occurred to scientists before.

A Jurassic Park is coming to the St. Louis Science Center this weekend. 20 life-sized animatronics dinosaurs will be on display.

Fluorescent rocks, ancient fossils, and the first dinosaur paintings are on view at Morven Museum and Garden as part of its new exhibition, 'Rocks & Dinos!' The show is anchored by the work of British naturalist artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins , whose large oil paintings feature dinosaurs, ancient mammals, and landscapes from different geologic ...

We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.

Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse in the 1930s.