Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...

Fans of dragons from the fantasy genre will be excited about new discoveries related to the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis. This dinosaur is from the Triassic Period, about 240 million years ago. It ...

A skull, unearthed nearly a century ago, has led to new revelations in the study of human evolution. Known as “Dragon Man,” the fossil has now been identified as belonging to the Denisovans — a ...

Darla Zelenitsky (right) and Jared Voris (left) were part of the team that identified and named Khankhuuluu based on fossils found in Mongolia during the 1970s. Riley Brandt / University of Calgary A ...

The fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur have been found in England's Midlands, the largest and most complete of its kind discovered in the U.K., according to a news release issued by Anglian Water ...

Meet the "Dragon of Death." Scientists in Argentina discovered the fossils of a flying reptile in the Andes mountains. They said it had a 30-foot wingspan and lived 86 million years ago alongside ...

A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull ...