What was once thought to be a well-preserved fossil of an ancient reptile has been revealed to be a forgery made using black paint, carved rock and a couple of bones.

The rare fossil, a 3-foot-long shin bone from a theropod (a carnivorous dinosaur family that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex), was discovered on April 22 at Laurel, Maryland’s Dinosaur Park, a ...

A "weird", heavily armoured dinosaur just became stranger than palaeontologists even realised, following the discovery of new ...

The vessels were found in a remarkable T. rex specimen nicknamed Scotty. Held in the Royal Saskatchewan Museum’s collection ...

The perfect family vacation for the Garretts of Ferguson involves getting down on their hands and knees to search through a pile of rocks with picks and toothbrushes, all while ...

Researchers claim to have new evidence that fossils found in the 1940s are not of a juvenile T-Rex, but of another distinct species: the Nanotyrannus.

Utah researchers say a prehistoric camel bone found in Uintah County nearly four decades ago is much older than initially ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

The presence of soft tissue and carbon-14 in dinosaur bones proves they lived “only a few thousand years” ago, not millions of years ago.

A Jar of Fossil Bones Long Stored at a Museum Led Scientists to Discover a Goblin-Like Lizard From 76 Million Years Ago Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied ...

A search for the fossils of long-extinct creatures, hidden in Russia’s frigid waters.

Hell Creek is a fitting name for a rock formation that preserves bones of a vegetarian dinosaur that battled the largest predator that ever lived on this land.