By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

A new approach using the hyoid bone uncovered distinct growth patterns. A new study has brought clarity to a long-running ...

NEW YORK – Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a ...

For ancient duck-billed dinosaurs, mating might have been a bone-jarring, even bone-breaking, affair. A new study describes a peculiar pattern of tailbone fractures in hadrosaurids (duck-billed ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Vibrant orange-coloured lichens are helping scientists discover dinosaur fossils in Canada, according to a new study published today [3 November] in Current Biology. An international team of ...

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

In what might be the coolest solution to "how to find fossils", a new study has revealed how we can take to the skies when trying to find dinosaur remains all thanks to vibrant orange-colored lichens.