When a dinosaur expert pitched the sharks on his lifesize audioanimatronic saurians, he had great showbiz credentials, but ...

Recent research suggests the exceptional fossils from China's Yixian Formation were preserved through natural sediment ...

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

In the Italian Alps, melting snow and ice have unveiled a 280-million-year-old fossilized ecosystem, predating the age of ...

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below ...

The Natural History Museum has a new “front porch” — a 75,000-square-foot exhibition space that’s free and open to the public starting Sunday.

The Psittacosaurus dinosaur fossils discovered in the Yixian Formation stood out for their remarkable state of preservation.

By the 1990s, it was clear that the so-called Yixian Formation contained uniquely well preserved remains of dinosaurs, birds, mammals, insects, frogs, turtles and other creatures. Unlike the ...