The results reveal how so many herbivores were able to coexist. Not only did they survive by eating different levels of the ...

A pivotal wrist bone in birds appears earlier in theropods. This could shift views on how flight evolved. An analysis of two ...

New fossil scans reveal that a tiny wrist bone in "Citipati" dinosaurs may have set the stage for the evolution of bird ...

A fossil discovered in a rock on display at the Nariwa Museum of Art in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been ...

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone considered important to flight in birds.

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized facial bone fragments in the Sima del Elefante cave near Spain's Atapuerca Mountains that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest ...

What Dinosaur Fossils Teach Us Imagine looking at dinosaur fossil collections in a natural history museum. At first glance, they may seem like giant bone puzzles built on basic anatomy — but ...

A fossil collector was combing a beach in Somerset in southwest England when he came upon chunks of fossilized bone. He showed them to his longtime friend, paleontologist Dean Lomax, based at the ...

In their study, Taylor and his colleagues revealed the preservation of original collagen remnants in the fossilized sacrum, or hip bone, of an Edmontosaurus, a duck-billed species of dinosaur ...

Officials also discovered fossilized vegetation in the bore hole near the bone. "I would love to dig a 763-foot hole in the parking lot to excavate that dinosaur, the rest of it.

Several similar large, fossilized bone fragments have been discovered in various regions across Western and Central Europe since the 19th century. The animal group to which they belonged is still ...