The name “Tyrannosaurus”, meaning tyrant lizard, was coined in 1905 by the American palaeontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn for the dinosaur ’s large size and role as an apex predator. There were three ...

The diversity of early dinosaur fossils and the rate at which they evolved suggests the original dinosaur long predated the ...

The fossils were pulled from Billeroo Creek, a patch of land east of the Flinders Ranges that is bone-dry today. During the ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

Well-preserved fossils of the oldest known species allowed researchers to find new information about the ancient animal.

In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

Fossils and DNA reveal how climate change is shrinking the habitat of an Australian lizard and threatening its future ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million ...

This Pennsylvania park offers a rare chance to hunt for fossils dating back 450 million years, making it a must-visit for ...