Science has uncovered some incredible connections between the chickens you'd find on a farm and one of the most famous ...

Dinosaur ‘drumsticks’ helped penguins waddle, turkeys trot millions of years later - Paleontologists compared the bones and ...

Gizmodo spoke with David Hone, author of a new book exploring how paleontologists study dinosaurs—and why it’s time to ...

The Yixian Formation in northeastern China is a regular treasure trove for paleontologists with its well-preserved fossils.

Hold onto your bones! From cutting-edge research to life-sized animatronics, "Dino Safari" at the Cox Science Center and ...

The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology team at a site where many three-dimensional dinosaur fossils have been ...

Coprolites—fossilized feces—from the Jurassic hold traces of past meals. These deposits left by a herbivorous dinosaur ...

Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.

A groundbreaking discovery is shedding light on how modern birds developed their unique brains and intelligence. Researchers ...

Paleontologists have also found clutches of baby dinosaurs ... "But most of the time, the feathered dinosaurs, they were preserved closely associated with volcanic ashes. There are many kind ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

For one thing, feathers, fur and everything else would almost certainly have been burned in a pyroclastic flow. For another, the dinosaurs and other animals are not in pugilistic positions ...