The priest of Vigevano's Duomo must have been startled to realize that by far the most faithful presence at mass, ever since the altar was built, is not nonna Pina but a real dinosaur -a glaring…

New dinosaurs in a long-forgotten world and you've never heard of it?  Don't be alarmed, the "lost continent" of Laramidia was formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North…

Paleontologists have released details about Concavenator corcovatus, a carnivorous humpbacked dinosaur discovered in Spain - and it oddly had both feathers and scales. Concavenator corcovatus was a…

The fossil exposures of the Lincoln Creek Formation, southern Olympic Peninsula, near the town of Porter, Washington consist of tuffaceous siltstone and sandstone with concretionary beds…

Cache Creek is the gateway to B.C.'s Cariboo Country, sporting big, open fields, cowboys and horses. It is also the stepping off point for field trips to the Eocene fossil beds at McAbee and Kamloops…

Princeton scientists say they may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies; sponge-like creatures that were living in ocean reefs 650 million years ago. The shelly fossils, found beneath a…

The Solenodon, 76-million-year-old badass of the natural world, must be saved So says Lucy Jones, the Telegraph's Culture Blogs Editor, who normally writes about popular culture and aesthetics,…

Researchers have unearthed a new species of horned dinosaur in Mexico with larger horns that any other species – up to 4 feet long.  The finding has given scientists fresh insights into the…

Finally, there is at least some controversy about Ardipithecus ramidus - 'Ardi'.   Ardi was the missing link that was bigger than a meteor hitting the Earth or whatever, right?  Nope, that…

Scientists say ancient fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert belong to a new type of pterosaur (giant flying reptile or pterodactyl) that existed about 95 million years ago. According to the…