The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

A new study, published in BMC Biology, discovered prehistoric wasp preserved in amber is turning heads in the world of ...

Scientists use different methods to calculate size and weight so they don’t always agree, but judging by bones found, a good ...

The dinosaur has been named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, which translates to “Tsogtbaatar’s two-claw,” honoring paleontologist ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, weighing in at 7.4 tonnes and 14 meters long. Other Cretaceous giants are right up ...

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when a massive asteroid ...

highlighting the harsh conditions of the Late Cretaceous period. Deep in the windswept deserts of Mongolia, a discovery once stunned the paleontology world—a 70-million-year-old nest containing ...

If we could travel back in time to South America during the Cretaceous period (about 143 million to 66 million years ago), we'd find a land ruled by a group of four-legged, long-necked and long-tailed ...

and lived roughly 90 to 95 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period, researchers said. Its claws measured about a foot (30 cm) long. Duonychus was a medium-sized member of a group of awkward ...

The water hole was surrounded by palm trees and sand dunes during the late Cretaceous period, but since then, the environment has changed drastically. Today, this area is known as the Anacleto ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, which means “two fingers,” according to a report publ ...

This newly discovered titanosaur species was found in what was once a shallow pond during the Cretaceous Period. CREDIT: Gabriel Diaz Yanten. The bones were uncovered near a salt flat in the ...