Paleontology is the study of the history of life as revealed in the fossil record. Fossils are remnants or traces of living organisms from past geologic ages that have become preserved in Earth's crust. They include not only the skeletons or...

Paleontologists study the history of life on Earth as shown in the fossil record. Fossils are the traces of organisms that lived in the past and are preserved in Earth's crust. Paleontology involves the identification and naming of fossil...

Paleontology is the study of plant and animal life in the geologic past. Paleontologists use fossils to study past life forms. They research what early organisms looked like, as well as their environments, their relationships to other life forms, and...

Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] This includes the study of body...

In a makeover of extraordinary proportions, scientists have dismantled a 75-foot-long sauropod dinosaur that roamed Wyoming 150 million years ago and will rebuild it to reflect the latest paleontological research findings. The fossil display of the plant-eating Apatosaurus that had dominated the University of Wyoming...

A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.The dinosaur's horns, thick as a human arm, are like those of triceratops...

Adolescent pregnancy isn't a modern invention, it occurred in dinosaurs millions of years ago. Medullary bone, a type of tissue present in modern birds when they are developing eggs, has been found in three dinosaur fossils, researchers report in Monday's online edition of Proceedings of...

The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.The fossil of the 5 1/2-foot-long predator was found in 2004 near the small city of Monte...