Learn about a fossil site in Transylvania that contains hundreds of vertebrate remains and was once an island full of dwarf dinosaurs.

Such is the case with Makoshika State Park, a sprawling 11,538-acre wonderland of fantastical badland formations nestled in Montana’s eastern reaches near Glendive. Let me be perfectly honest—this ...

Tsunamis are powerful ocean waves caused primarily by undersea earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or even meteor ...

Subtle genomic variations between humans and Neanderthals provide clues to how DNA shapes our facial features.

Paleontologists at the University of Chicago have revealed fossilized duck-billed dinosaur specimens from Wyoming that were carefully prepared in the Fossil Lab. These fossils preserve soft tissue and ...

The decaying reptiles could solve several of paleontology’s biggest mysteries from why some fossils preserve fragile soft ...

Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...

Tainrakuasuchus bellator, a swift croc ancestor from Brazil, reveals that fierce reptile predators ruled Earth long before ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a group of South American sauropods developed a surprising evolutionary advantage: the ability ...

Many paleontologists believe that the shape of fossilized pigment containers in cells can help determine dinosaur colors. But some remain skeptical.