The discovery of the fossil, nicknamed "Teen Rex," was announced on Tuesday by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where it will be studied and displayed.
Among the ravenous carnivores and lumbering herbivores that roamed the Cretaceous landscape, another kind of dinosaur was evolving that started to eat something else: the plants that began to flower ...
After a 12-minute bidding war among six contenders, a rare specimen named Jodi just narrowly missed the auction record for a ...
A six-year-old boy discovered a rare ancient marine fossil in Nebraska's Schramm Park, the first known conulariid found in ...
A study of rare fossils has revealed what our ancient human ancestors, the Denisovans, might have looked like.
Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in ...
The specimen, known as Nanotyrannus, resembles a smaller Tyrannosaurus rex ...
Nanotyrannus was about half the length of an adult T. rex, and the two creatures coexisted during the Cretaceous period some 67 million years ago.
Jodi may not be a T. rex, but someone was willing to pay T. rex money for it.
A fossilized, distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex is on display at a Manhattan auction house ahead of its Oct. 27 auction ...
The conulariid are rare fossil discoveries because they had soft bodies and thin skeletons that usually broke apart before they could be preserved.
A new scientific study has shed light on the physical appearance of the Denisovans, a mysterious group of ancient humans who lived in Asia hundreds of thousands of years ago. By analyzing fossils ...