A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil named “Gus” became the most expensive dinosaur ever to sell at auction on Tuesday. Gus sold for ...

One of the most complete fossils of the dinosaur that has captured humanity's imagination sold for millions during Sotheby's ...

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction, after fetching a ...

A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.

A large T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Gus’ is on track to break auction records, and highlight one of paleontology’s biggest ...

Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. In contrast, our ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

Imagine you’re walking to work when you unwittingly make a massive contribution to science. That was the experience for a Southern California science teacher who discovered a never-before-seen whale ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...

A mislabelled fossil, forgotten and sitting in a museum drawer for decades is actually more special than previously thought. The skull fossil belongs to an ancient species of saber-toothed cat that ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than paleontologists. Black market smugglers routinely rob both the East Asian country of its ...