“It’s easy to get me excited about anything related to fossils,” says Amy Atwater. That’s a pretty good quality to have when you’re the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison – and ...

The tooth-marked bones of giant, plant-eating dinosaurs have provided a fascinating glimpse into the prehistoric feeding habits of large carnivores living in North America around 150 million years ago ...

While examining dinosaur fossils for a school project a few years ago, Kyle Atkins-Weltman noticed a few irregularities. He set out to study bones that were believed to belong to an Anzu wyliei, a ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of the weirdest and most reality-shifting moments in science. On Feb. 20, 1824, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society in London, the world was ...

Even for people of advanced years (like me), the past can seem slippery and far away. For the very young — who have so little past to reckon with — it’s an even more difficult thing to grasp. Last ...

An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a cache of ancient Roman artifacts in England. Among them, one “remarkable” object stood out that predates not only the Romans, but all of human civilization: a ...

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones lying almost on top of each other. The K2 site preserves thousands of remains ...

Vibrant orange-colored lichens are helping scientists discover dinosaur fossils in Canada, according to a study published in Current Biology. A set of bones belonging to sauropods, as long-necked ...