Two dinosaurs fossilized in combat, originally thought to involve a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex testing its mettle against a Triceratops, actually feature a separate species frequently confused with ...

Named for its razor-like teeth, Novaculadon mirabilis came from a rodent-like order that outlived the dinosaur extinction before vanishing about 30 million years ago. By Sara Novak Around 145 million ...

Visitors to a new museum and fossil park can dig for buried end-Cretaceous treasure. By Laura Baisas Published Jun 28, 2025 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

FOX10 News reporter Shelby Myers framed it as the kind of outdoor story that usually ends with a few photos, a cooler full of fish, and maybe a handful of shark teeth – until it suddenly didn’t. What ...

Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth. The 24 million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under ...

While hiking through the fossil-rich terrain of North Dakota, three children made a discovery that paleontologists are calling one of the rarest in recent memory — the skeleton of an adolescent ...

A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s favorite ...