The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period dinosaur. The ...

Birds are inextricably linked to feathers, which allow them to fly, keep warm and put on dramatic displays. Feathers, however ...

Skeleton of the new plesiosaur at the Urwelt-Museum Hauff in Holzmaden, Germany. Credit: Klaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff Scientists at Lund University analyzed soft tissue from a ...

Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs.

The discovery of preserved skin on a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur is revolutionizing our understanding of these extinct marine reptiles. By analyzing the soft tissues of this fossil, researchers ...

The Age of Dinosaurs is the new exhibit now open at the Virginia Museum of Natural History allowing visitors to be immersed ...

“After being properly prepared, it became evident that (the new species was) part of a rare group of herbivorous/omnivorous ...

Fossilized soft tissue, such as skin and internal organs, is “exceptionally rare” in dinosaur fossils, Miguel Marx, a Ph.D. student in geology at Lund University and the lead author of the study, said ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...