The Murcia tracksites confirm that straight-tusked elephants, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, crossed Spain’s southeastern coastal ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

Millions of years ago, Earth looked very different. All the continents were fused into one, teeming with life that was both ...

The physical differences between the earliest known fossils and those from the dinosaurs that lived much later suggest that animals had already been evolving for some time. Paleontologists believe ...

This illustration provided by the University of Vigo and University College London, depicts a dromaeosaur incubating its eggs as snow falls. The raptor, along with other select dinosaurs, may have ...

Disney may have its dinosaurs speaking English, but that seems almost tame compared with the startling conclusions that scientists have reached about these Mesozoic reptiles lately. Finding vegetation ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct ...

Dinosaurs ruled Earth for millions of years, but according to the most widely accepted theory, a massive asteroid wiped them ...

Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat. Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. The findings shed new light on how dinosaur's ...

The Jurassic Period lasted from about 201.3 to 145 million years ago. Evolution moved incredibly fast then, as did the creatures it created. In popular culture, we tend to think of dinosaurs as slow, ...

Researchers believe that fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs can shed light on how the ancient creatures evolved to become a dominant force on Earth. The study, led by Martin Qvarnström of ...

Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were: The ...