Dinosaurs & Fossils

Travel back in geologic time with our detailed coverage on dinosaurs, from fossil discoveries to new research illuminating the extinction of species such as tyrannosaurs, pterosaurs, and megalodons. Read more on how paleontology, anthropology, and geology continue to reveal new clues about our planet's past.

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Recent stories in Dinosaurs & Fossils: Justice for Neanderthals!; Why Everything We Thought We Knew About T. Rex is Getting … Messier; This Cretaceous 'Sea Monster' Attacked Prey Faster than Great White Sharks; Can You Draw a T. Rex Correctly?; A Tyrannosaur Ate a Feathery Meal—and It Was Frozen in Time; Researchers Discover Rare Denisovan Bones in a Cave in China; How an Unlikely Fossil Hunter Found a Tyrannosaurus Trail; DNA Reveals the Extinct ‘American Cheetah’ Wasn’t Actually a Cheetah; The Dinosaurs That Went Extinct ... Twice; What, Exactly, Is a Turtle?; The ‘Blessed Lizard’ That Inherited the Earth After Its Worst Apocalypse; Why the U.K.'s fossil capital is the perfect seaside getaway; The Odyssey is fiction. But its monsters and magic may have been based on real science.; A raptor in the snow and a helicopter escape; Our ancient ‘hobbit’ cousins ate dragon leftovers; Inside the making of the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi; What this feathered ‘dino-stork’ can tell us about the last days of the dinosaurs; In a first, scientists extract ancient human DNA from cave walls; Terror birds survived millions of years longer than previously thought; Scientists discover ‘graveyard’ of whale skeletons in an ocean abyss off Australia; Scientists unearth a ‘petrified aquarium’ of 62-million-year-old fish fossils; Stones & Bones: The dino ‘monsters’ of Patagonia—and the hermit who found them; Wonders of America; Exclusive: There’s a new T. rex in town—and this giant beast ruled the seas; A new species offers a clue to the boom of giant dinosaurs