The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Discover how apex predators like great whites started as slow, bottom-dwelling fish in ancient oceans, and how climate change shaped their rise.

The frilled shark is basically a living dinosaur that’s been swimming around our oceans for 80 million years, and it […] ...

At a press conference in the Capitol, they made the case for regulating greenhouse gases in the interest of youth and future ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

It is remarkable for being the oldest definitive pachycephalosaur, pushing back the fossil record of this group by at least 15 million years, but also because of how complete and ...

A specimen discovered in Mongolia is the most complete fossil yet found of a pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur believed to be built for head-butting. The skull of Zavacephale rinpoche, a pachycephalosaur ...

Anyone who has ever flipped open a dinosaur book is likely familiar with pachycephalosaurs. These dome-headed dinos are often depicted ramming the tops of their bowling-ball-like skulls into predators ...

In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, researchers uncovered a remarkably complete fossil of a dome-headed dinosaur that lived 108 million years ago. Nicknamed the “precious one,” this teenage pachycephalosaur is ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.