They’re like terrifying versions of crabs, with a sort of gravitational attraction to the same body form again and again.

One scorching day last September, Annie Méchin crouched over a slab of red clay on a remote patch of farmland near Marseille, on France’s Mediterranean coast. Méchin was scraping away at the ...

However, at face value, the fossils available for study from this time — more than 8,000 — suggest the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago and then declined in the 9 ...

Scientists have uncovered the first known fossil with air pockets, a feature previously unseen in this specific type of dinosaur. The fossils belong to a family of fast-moving dinosaurs called ...

The fossils belong to a family of fast-moving dinosaurs called Alvarezsauridae and are estimated to be around 70 million years old. Alvarezsaurids were small, bird-like dinosaurs known for their ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse ...

Scientists from Argentina, the United States, and China have uncovered the first known fossil with air pockets in Alvarezsaurid, a feature previously unseen in this type of dinosaur. They mentioned ...

Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study. It has been hotly debated ...

210 million years ago, it was the largest terrestrial tetrapod, but still a very small forerunner of the later giant, long-necked dinosaurs. Plateosaur fossils have been found, for example, in ...

James Patterson is an American author that has been active since 1976 and is one of the most prolific authors in history, both quality, and quantity-wise. The brilliant author holds The New York Times ...

This is the largest sandbox, at about 700 square feet. The Small Sandbox features a second light table, dinosaur bone excavation, and additional balance and gravity stations and is about 300 ...