Despite how we usually depict them, the hilarious truth is that many dinosaurs who once roamed our Earth, did so with a fabulous display of feathers. It seems far-fetched, but anyone who has spent ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ruling the planet. New work on how each group raised its young suggests the ...

Ornithopod vertebra from the Denver Formation, from 763 feet of depth in the City Park core drilling in the parking lot at Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (courtesy of richard m. Wicker) The ...

Since the first scientific recognition of dinosaur fossils in the early 19th century, these animals have captivated our attention. How could the same planet that we call home have produced such ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

CHICAGO -- During a journey that could be the plot of an adventure novel, paleontologists discovered the fossils of a new dinosaur species in the vast Sahara Desert. "It was the expedition of a ...