Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters - capable of sinking their claws even into solid ...

The tracks indicate how many animals were traveling via the ancient coastline. Paleontologists have found tens of thousands of dinosaur tracks in South America, which offers evidence as to which ...

The fossil called "Medusa" could be a dinosaur mummy—the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years old that researchers believe contains a significant amount of skin and tendon tissue. It's ...

Microscopic structures seen in the fossilised skin of a sauropod suggest that these giant dinosaurs may have been as brightly coloured as some birds. Tess Gallagher at the University of Bristol, UK, ...

The little bird-like dinosaur Oculudentavis khaungraae probably dined on insects in a Cretaceous rainforest. A piece of amber less than 1.5 inches wide contains the entire skull of Oculudentavis ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.