Bill Simpson, collections manager for fossil vertebrates at the Field Museum in Chicago, dusts off Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex. The only one to clean Sue in her Field tenure, Simpson does the job with a ...

A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s favorite ...

When it comes to dino outerwear, shag might be the new scales. Fossil evidence from three 125-million-year-old dinosaurs that were relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex indicate the giant creatures wore ...

The study of fossil feathers and melanosome preservation has significantly advanced our understanding of the evolutionary history of vertebrate integumentary systems. Fossilised feathers, replete with ...

After T. rex was first described in 1905, the world’s most charismatic megafossil could have turned out to be a mere curiosity. Tyrannosaurus rex is still the biggest, baddest land predator of all ...