The Boneyard in Disney's Animal Kingdom is now permanently closed to make way for a new Tropical Americas land.

Scientists have discovered that the world's oldest armored dinosaur sported the most extreme defensive features ever found in any vertebrate, living or extinct. The 165-million-year-old Spicomellus ...

A team of staff and volunteers from the Tate Geological Museum at Casper College spent the first half of August excavating the 150-million-year-old ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

If you hear about a fossil dig or people who’ve actually excavated fossils out of the ground, they usually first found it by taking the steps described above.

A dinosaur dubbed one of the "strangest" ever found boasted an elaborate armory of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, ...

The 13-foot dinosaur, covered in long spikes fused into its bones, suggests ankylosaurs developed tail weapons 30 million years earlier than thought ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The South Florida Fairgrounds is about to get a prehistoric makeover as Jurassic Quest rolls ...

To confirm this really was a Middle Jurassic stegosaur, finding where the bones originally came from was vital. There were no vertebrate palaeontologists in Morocco at the time, so Susannah began ...

Armed with playlists, tweezers and patience, researchers at Petrified Forest National Park announced the discovery of a new species of tanystropheid reptile in the journal Palaeodiversity on Aug. 1.

Extinct animals hold the answers to life and death, says University of Cambridge's PhD in Palaeontology student Grace Kinney Broderick.

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds ...