Paleontology

The vegetarian dinosaurs had giraffe-like necks and bore a strong resemblance to a family in Europe.

You did not want to be performing a dental exam on this otter.

An undergraduate student first spotted the tiny remains.

Steer clear of the short-arm jokes if you want to avoid their wrath.

Several extinct members of the giraffe family found in Madrid are shockingly weird-looking.

Scientists dig up twice as many male mammoths as females, but that doesn't mean their population was so skewed.

Five enormous neck bones held all the clues.

Scientists worked from three fossils to reconstruct the dinosaur's camouflage.

It hardly left a trace.

The fossil is in incredibly good condition and nearly complete.

Its skull was hidden for almost 150 years in a museum collection.

This animal lived 190 million years ago and was excavated in the '80s. This week, it finally gets a name.

Australian researchers edge closer to understanding how whales lost their teeth to become the gentle giants we see today.

Scientists say there was probably "one major event" that allowed a group of titanosaurs to reach huge sizes.

The apex predator probably couldn't even walk very fast, forcing a rethink of the fearsome dinosaur's hunting technique.

Razanandrongobe sakalavae is the oldest and largest representative of Notosuchia—a type of crocodilian that lived millions of years ago.

The dinosaur's teeth could generate 431,000 pounds of force per square inch.

The four-legged creature from the Triassic period is the oldest species from the lineage that leads towards dinosaurs.

This huge animal likely fed on the soft-bodies of other invertebrates.

For more than 100 years, the iconic dinosaur was considered a misnomer. Not anymore.

3-D scanners are now everywhere, from doctors' offices to clothing stores.

The film's dinosaurs look wrong, but the film's fun feels right.

The expansion of the Panama Canal has proved to be a gold mine for paleontologists