John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

Do these figurines from Mexico show that ancient humans lived alongside dinosaurs? Or is something else going on?

A NEW dog-sized dinosaur species that roamed the Earth 220 million years ago has been discovered. The Maleriraptor kuttyi is thought to be one of the earliest killer dinosaurs in history. The ...

From petrified dinosaur fossils to ancient pictographs scrawled across the rocks, Dinosaur National Monument isn't quite like other US parks.

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...

August F. Herwede, a painter and interior designer, attended the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, where he came across an ...