CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Archaeopteryx—a small, feathered dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago—changed how humans understand the world, “maybe more than any other fossil,” as Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at ...

WASHINGTON — Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight ...

Tyrannosaurs catch a lot of teasing for their tiny arms. The fiddly, two-clawed appendages just look a little silly on carnivores of such imposing stature. But they were hardly alone—another enigmatic ...

On03, Chinese paleontologists discovered the fossil of a dinosaur species with four wings. The 130-million-year-old fossil ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium Marketing & Communications Manager Emily Adlfinger talks ...

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Oct 25, 2012) - The ostrich-like dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie were portrayed as a herd of scaly, fleet-footed animals being chased by a ferocious ...

In 2008, a fossil hunter named Frank Hadfield went for a walk among the hoodoos of Drumheller, Alberta. Up on one of these chunky sandstone minarets studding the southern Albertan badlands, Hadfield ...

Here, things get interesting, as just recently it was announced that two remarkably intact dinosaurs had been discovered in ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...