A new dinosaur has been discovered in Mongolia, one that sported two large claws measuring about a foot long on its front ...

Quetzalcoatlus was a pterosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period directly before the ... living between 68 and 66 million years ago. Quetzalcoatlus fossils were first discovered in Texas in ...

A hunter searching for deer in West Texas stumbled upon what was originally thought to be a stump - but turned out to be an ultra-rare fossil. The hunter was visiting O2 Ranch, one of the largest ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part four in a four-part series. Read part one here, part two here and part three here. Correction: This article has been ...

In the forests and farmland of eastern Poland, Grzegorz Wróbl set out on a mission to find fossils. Instead, he found an ...

She said a paleontological team immediately identified there were fossils present. “They call them the sloths of the Cretaceous period. Totally bizarre looking things,” Zelenitsky said in an ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

A hunter at the O2 Ranch,a privately owned ranch in Brewster and Presidio counties, in search of deer came across a rare yet ...

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot Nov. 28, 2024 — More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...

Discover real dinosaur digs in North America where you can join paleontologists in excavating fossils. Here are 5 places to ...

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