The anatomy of a Chinese fossil offers a hint that birdsong may be as old as the dinosaurs themselves. By Asher Elbein Since the 1930s, dinosaurs have rumbled, snarled and roared on film. But the ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). This journey back in time starts in southern Alberta, two hours east of Calgary, where the ground cracks open to reveal a prehistoric ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has sent researchers everywhere from North Dakota to Antarctica in search of fossils to study and display. It turns out they could have stayed home. The museum ...

The phrase “leave no stone unturned” has taken on new meaning for paleontologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who discovered a special fossil hidden right under their noses — beneath ...

Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth. The 24 million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...