Each of these ancient fossils, even if just a small part of a skeleton, represents an identifiable character in the story of humankind.

Researchers confirm the terror bird fossil 20 years after its South American discovery, comparing the creature to a massive, ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

The mostly flightless, meat-eating dinosaur descendents were the size of dogs at their smallest, but the largest known ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil has revealed what may be the largest known "terror bird" ever found, according to paleontologists.

The fossil of a massive predator called a terror bird that roamed South America 12 million years ago is from the largest ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

Oct. 11, 2024 — Scientists analyzed hairs extracted from the broken teeth of two 19th century 'man-eater' lions. Their analysis revealed DNA from giraffe, human ... rare fossils of jaws and ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

The fossil, the end of a left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone ... is ...

The previous tallest members of the family were almost 3 meters high, and this was probably substantially bigger.

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...