Terror birds were at the top of the food chain, but one may have been killed in a vicious battle with a caiman, scientists found ...

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized ...

A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information ...

Protein remnants in fossil enamel reveal new ways to study evolution. These molecules stretch our view of molecular ...

The work led by CENIEH researchers aims to increase awareness within the scientific community about the consequences of using ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

The flightless and carnivorous terror birds could reach up to 10 feet tall and were among the largest apex predators in South ...

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

The mastodon findings have been sent to the New York State Museum for examination and curation while a number of other ...

A Ceratosaurus fossil that is one of only four known to exist has sold for $30.5 million at auction. The rare dinosaur fossil ...