Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 200 million-year-old slab of rock has been found to have 66 fossilized dinosaur footprints from the Early Jurassic. The rock was ...

The Jurassic period was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush vegetation and abundant life. Many new dinosaurs emerged—in great numbers. Above, Dimorphodon reptiles fly over a ...

A new dinosaur species from the early Jurassic period was discovered in southwestern China, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eLife. Scientists originally found remains of an ...

It began last June, when a worker at a limestone quarry in southeast England felt “unusual bumps” as he was digging up clay. Now a team of over 100 researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and ...

PAGE, Ariz. (WKRC) - Field crews recently discovered an extremely rare Jurassic-era fossil while documenting fossil sites along a stretch of Lake Powell. A ground crew for the Glen Canyon National ...

The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago. The new study looked ...

Cartilaginous fish have changed much more in the course of their evolutionary history than previously believed. Evidence for this thesis has been provided by new fossils of a ray-like shark, ...

The pliosaur was a carnivorous reptilian apex predator that roamed and ruled the seas for millions of years during the Jurassic period. In late 2023, an extraordinary discovery along the rugged cliffs ...

Six months ago, a team of paleontologists investigated a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, that had some unusual bumps in its floor. The bumps, as it turns out, constitute about 200 dinosaur footprints ...

Years ago, I took a sabbatical from work and volunteered at the Houston Museum giving student tours. Students were interested in the dinosaur exhibit that included the skeleton of a diplodocus, a ...

Scientists found an unexpected aging pattern in a mostly intact juvenile mammal skeleton from the paleontological period. By Jack Tamisiea Small mammals often live fast and die young. Rodents and ...