Excavations by University of Michigan’s Paleontologist Philip Gingerich in the 1980s revealed vital fossil records. Among hundreds of whale fossils, he discovered legs and knees during the ...

Roy Chapman Andrews, who could be called the first fossil hunter, mounted a huge expedition to the Gobi Desert in the early 1920s. There, his team found the first dinosaur ever known to science.

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

The fossil itself was first spotted by paleontologist Joseph Sertich back in 2005. “ [I remember seeing] a bunch of scattered ...

Embark on an exhilarating and one-of-a-kind expedition to uncover dinosaur remains in the vast wilderness of the Gobi desert, one of the world’s most famous palaeontological hotspots.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that was related to the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex. The dino fossils, two partial skeletons found in Gobi Desert in Mongolia in the 1970s ...

The Dinosaur Discovery Site was given two months to uncover as many fossils as possible before construction on the substation began. During that time, paleontologists and volunteers unearthed more ...

ByMatt Dutile Published on June 21, 2025 Camels and their herders at the 2025 Ten Thousand Camel Festival in Mongolia.Credit: Matt Dutile ...

In a lesser-traveled corner of Big Bend National Park, scientists are uncovering one of the most detailed records of ancient marine life anywhere in the world. For Jordan Todes, a PhD student at ...

A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus ...

Young Post joined a group of teens as they spend six days trekking sand dunes, navigating their way through caves and studying ancient art in Dunhuang.