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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The skull is from Vegavis iaai, an extinct duck-like bird that lived during the Late Cretaceous, just before non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. It’s one of very few 3D bird skulls known to ...

A 69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica has been identified as a relative of geese and ducks, making it the ... Period alongside the last dinosaurs. But because only fragments of skulls ...

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