A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Ph.D. candidate Michael Chiappone simulated real-world floods at the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory.

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

The research provides new clues for understanding animal extinction and environmental changes. The paper was recently published in Paleobiology, a peer reviewed journal.

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists excavating ...