Paleontologists have long assumed that fossilization destroys all organic molecules in ancient remains. However, a ...

The footprint belongs to hadrosaurid dinosaurs — famously known for their distinctive flat, duck-like beaks. They belong to the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae. This massive footprint is ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

Although dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth millions of years ago and therefore ceased to be the predominant species on the ...

Japan could be the first country to become extinct due to low birth rate Donghao Wang, a paleontologist at the China University of Geosciences, explained where the remains of this dinosaur species ...

The fossil is about 65 million years old. Sloan also uncovered the only dinosaur fossil ever found in Minnesota, a bone from a duck-billed dinosaur. “It was a crummy dinosaur tail bone, the least ...

The male wood duck is one of the most beautiful birds on Earth. We’re lucky we can see them almost any day of the week, any ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis' placement in the ...

BEIJING -- Scientists have confirmed that a set of skeletal fossils discovered in southern China belonged to duck-billed dinosaurs from over 70 million years ago, expanding the region's fossil ...

Note: children will probably need some help cutting out the egg and baby dinosaur, as the pieces are quite small. Maiasaura is a duck-billed dinosaur that lived around 80 to 75 million years ago. Lots ...

The findings shed light on how organic molecules like collagen may survive for tens of millions of years within dinosaur ...