A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming ...

Researchers now have a new idea of what a certain type of duck-billed dinosaur looked like, thanks to experts from the ...

“The Flintstones” may now be considered historical fiction. A new paper published in the journal Current Biology suggests that human ancestors lived with dinosaurs for a short time before the ...

All human beings age. It is part of our biology and limits our lifespan to slightly over 120 years. Not all animals experience aging during their lives. Some animals' bodies do not gradually ...

Have you ever wondered why animals, particularly birds, and some reptiles, especially turtles, live such long lives compared to mammals with the same body masses? According to molecular ...

We know dinosaurs were big, but how big were they? And how do we even know? Luckily, paleontologists and other scientists know how to find the answers. By measuring fossils, comparing them to the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a catastrophic asteroid impact wiped out 75% of Earth’s species, bringing an abrupt end to the reign of the nonavian dinosaurs. The 9-mile-wide (15 km) space rock struck ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart. But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable ...