Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...

For decades, dinosaur seekers have anecdotally noted the presence of distinctive orange growth on fossil bones. It turns out that vibrant orange lichens—crusty little colonies that can comprise algae ...

Feb 19 (Reuters) - At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for ...

Citizen scientists uncover dinosaur toe bones and claws along Australia’s southern coast, sharpening insight into ancient polar life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil from the Jurassic era turned up at a Montana dig site this year — unearthed not by a scientist, but by a Connecticut high school student. Aidan Connor, a senior at ...

An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

On a summer day in July 2025, UA Museums paleontologist Dr. John Friel was scanning the gravel bars of a Greene County creek when he stumbled on an unexpected prize. Buried among the river pebbles, he ...

Construction crews have helped excavate the first fossils in Dinosaur National Monument in more than 100 years. The bones, which belonged to a massive sauropod, were discovered during work on a ...

For the first time in over 100 years, fossils have been excavated from the parking lot of the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur ...