This 237-million-year-old fossil could be a last common link between dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs
History


What is Juneteenth?

We open a new series of posts on Black history and experiences with a look at the American holiday that celebrates freedom from enslavement


Tiny bird sculpture is oldest art ever found in China

Found in 2009, researchers spent a decade trying to date the 13,000-year-old carving


Who’s hungry? Last meal of nodosaur discovered!

Already known as the world’s best preserved dinosaur, this Alberta fossil has the mummified remains of the animal’s final feeding.


Ancient Sahara was a super predator zone

Paleontologists say that 100 million years ago, this area was the most dangerous place in the history of Earth


Ancient Viking road revealed by melting ice

Climate change continues to expose treasures in Norway that have been buried for millenia