Learn about three momentous dinosaur findings from the fossil record Paul M. Barrett Scientists who study dinosaurs make new discoveries in the field, extracting previously unknown specimens from the ...

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 ...

Scientists in China just found something amazing. It's the world's smallest cat fossil found in China, and it belongs to a ...

These ancient crustaceans are meager in size but mighty in history. A colony of prehistoric triops, a tadpole shrimp that’s existed for hundreds of millions of years, was beautifully captured by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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A new study, led by paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period.