One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

The Archaeopteryx, the fossils of which were first discovered around 1860, belonged to the Late Jurassic period and was once ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

The bird has a short tail ending in a pygostyle, an important aerodynamic innovation moving the center of mass forward toward ...

Researchers state that the fossils prove that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.

Historian and avocational archaeologist Tim Kent will offer an insightful presentation at 7 p.m. on Friday at Besser Museum ...

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

The Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) is inviting you on a prehistoric adventure to a land before the age of man. The ...