Scientists in Argentina discovered the oldest known long-necked dinosaur, Huayracursor jaguensis, revealing a much earlier ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

Newtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the Triassic era to be so large is essentially unprecedented. Scientists in ...

The fossils were uncovered at a remote bonebed in present-day Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. They date back to the late Triassic period and offer paleontologists a snapshot of an ecosystem ...

Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the ...

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British museum fossils, misidentified for over a century, are now known to be ancient coelacanth fish. This discovery dramatically increases the number of known specimens from the British Triassic ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

The state of New Mexico has recognized a state fossil and a state gem. The state gem will be presented in a later column.

The dinosaur roamed the earth about 202 million years ago, experts say. Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus step aside. There’s a new dinosaur species that roamed the earth 202 million years ago, and it’s ...