Eggs laid by dinosaurs have provided paleontologists with a new way to tell prehistoric time. By looking to radioactive ...

The fossils found reveal the existence of Ahshislesaurus wimani, a new, duck-billed hadrosaur from the late Cretaceous period ...

For birds, black feathers provide certain flight advantages. That's because black feathers contain more pigment-packed melanosomes than do feathers of other colors, and melanosomes can bind with ...

Archaeologists in Argentina have discovered a 'perfectly preserved' dinosaur egg thought to be around 70 million years old ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

Fossils from New Mexico change how we look at dinosaur history.

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 ...

Argentine paleontologists found a 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg in Río Negro. This rare find is believed to belong to a ...

The cast of the skull of Nigersaurus. The fossil skull of Nigersaurus was one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans. Photograph by Ira Block, Nat Geo Image ...

A newly unearthed fossil has led experts to believe an ancient species of crocodile may have been an apex predator that hunted dinosaurs on land. Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer Diego ...

Pay tribute to our favorite reptiles with trivia, books and much more. Alert the little paleontologist in your household: It will soon be International Dinosaur Day! Though the big day takes place on ...