The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Dinosaur eggs at the around 80-million-year-old Qinglong Mountain dinosaur egg fossil cluster in Hubei Province Photo: VCG.

The fossil, known as the Elgol dinosaur, has been revealed to be a Middle Jurassic-era ornithopod dinosaur. The fossil is dated to around 166 million ... finds include the world's largest Jurassic ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they ... of ancient lineage make them one of the world's most fearsome living fossils. Graceful in flight and elegant on ...

They hopped around ... fossils waiting in the Middle Atlas Mountains for researchers to find them. More information: Susannah Maidment et al, The world's oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur ...

The fossil animals ... would have been like around 5 million years ago," said Dr. Jasinski. "Our research is helping us not only understand the biodiversity of our world but also providing crucial ...

Palaeontologists have uncovered the world’s oldest known ... the missing chapters in these dinosaurs' history. Cerapodans were small, plant-eating dinosaurs that scampered around on two legs. Come the ...

The donated collection of over 250 items includes teeth from a prehistoric shark and fossilized dinosaur bones like the horn ...