In palaeontology, however, we are not always blessed with nearly complete skeletons. In a process called "taphonomy" - basically, what happens to the bones after an animal dies - dinosaur skeletons ...

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Among the finds was a brand-new species of dinosaur ... we only find a few bones, and sometimes even if we find a full skeleton, a lot of the bones have been disarticulated from each other.

Palaeontologists have discovered 66 three-toed dinosaur footprints in a slab of rock that has been on display for 20 years at a school in Queensland ...

with the bones still connected in their natural position has made this skeleton extremely unique. Experts are already speculating on what secrets it may hold, ranging from the dinosaur's way of ...

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

On this day in 1963, Saskatoon police investigated a still-unsolved murder after three children found bones near a demolished ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...

While Duonychus tsogtbaatari had formidable claws, they were likely used to grasp vegetation, according to a study of a fully ...

Known as the Bayanshiree Formation, this area is a hotspot for dinosaur fossils, thanks to its arid conditions and layers of ...