Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History invites visitors to explore two remarkable chapters in the story of life on ...

For decades, dinosaurs were thought to be permanently lost to time, but new genetic experiments suggest that assumption may ...

It doesn't appear dramatic at first glance. A spherical fossil discovered on dry ground in central India, one of many found ...

Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight into feathered ...

An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details about the enormous reptiles that once roamed the Earth Newly discovered species ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

The discovery of new Ajkaceratops skull fossils has finally provided the evidence that shows ceratopsians did make it to Europe after all. The palaeontologists found that not only was this Hungarian ...

A fossilized dinosaur embryo discovered inside a fossilized egg in southern China is reshaping scientific understanding of avian evolution. Preserved for more than 70 million years and left unexamined ...

Visitors can wander through halls filled with dinosaur fossils, mounted mammals, minerals and global wildlife specimens.

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...