More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the ...

Buried beneath the sun-baked rock of Big Bend National Park, a colossal secret lay hidden for millions of years—until a group of geology students recently unearthed the rare bones of the park's latest ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints ...

A group of geology students from Sul Ross State University that were being led by professors Dr. Jesse Kelsch and Dr. Thomas Schiller visited Big Bend National Park in Texas to study rock layers and ...

Dr. Alessandro Chiarenza, a co-author of the study, explained that geological changes like mountain building and sea-level ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse ...

Powerful volcanic eruptions often deposit layers of ash and rock around fossils, forming distinct volcanic layers above and below them. Since these volcanic layers of the recently uncovered sites ...

The scientists said the fossilized tracks, recovered from two distinct rock layers, uncovered behaviors and species previously undocumented in the monument's fossil record, including ...