When did these blockhead dinosaurs get their domes? A new fossil is “the specimen we have all been waiting for.” In this artist's reconstruction, two pachycephalosaurs from the new species Zavacephale ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

This journey back in time starts in southern Alberta, two hours east of Calgary, where the ground cracks open to reveal a prehistoric archive dating back some 76 million years. Here, the rolling ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

A newly discovered trove of fossilized footprints provides what may be the first evidence of prehistoric diversity in dinosaur herds, though not everyone is convinced. A herd of ceratopsians ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly its last feast. A reconstruction of the newly discovered megaraptor ...

We spot the first cliff early in the morning. The summer sun rises slowly, its deep indigo gradually fading into a soft peach. The world remains asleep, and we break the silence with heavy breathing ...

Shri rapax had bigger claws and potentially a stronger bite than its Hollywood relative. But paleontologists still don’t know the whereabouts of its head, which went missing. The newly named raptor ...

One bright day in April 2023, Hannah Maddox drove 13 hours from Knoxville, Tennessee, to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research station in the Everglades National Park, near the southern bump of ...