Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A ...

While it seems like researchers are finding new fossils all the time, it is actually quite rare for an animal to become fossilized. The vast majority of all animals that ever lived do not become ...

What did the teenage tyrannosaur have for dinner? Whatever it wanted! That groaner of a dad joke isn’t very funny—and it’s also not accurate. Unlike their enormous adult relatives at the top of the ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

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Since the first scientific recognition of dinosaur fossils in the early 19th century, these animals have captivated our attention. How could the same planet that we call home have produced such ...

Small mammals that lived around 125 million years ago may have preyed on dinosaurs three times their size, a strange fossil unearthed in China suggests. Now, Jordan Mallon at the Canadian Museum of ...