The Yixian Formation in northeastern China is a regular treasure trove for paleontologists with its well-preserved fossils.

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

For more than 20 years, the Yixian Formation has produced exceptionally preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs, but a new ...

Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost certainly descended from dinosaurs. Until now, scientists largely attributed ...

In northern Tajikistan, in the Sughd region, scientists have discovered a dinosaur bone dated 85 million years ago. During ...

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow ...

The fossil bird, which has been named Navaornis hestiae, lived approximately 80 million years ago in what is now Brazil, ...