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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In Argentina’s Río Negro region, scientists discovered a 70-million-year-old, remarkably preserved carnivorous dinosaur egg ...

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 ...