There’s more than one way to supersize a dinosaur. Scientists studying the ancient bones of sauropod relatives that walked the Earth more than 200 million years ago have found that they grew to ...

To celebrate International Museum Day, learn how experts protect the museum’s most dramatic displays from dust bunnies and cobwebs Naomi Greenberg Michelle Pinsdorf (left) and Steve Jabo (right) clean ...

Fossils of a new, giant species of dinosaur have been discovered in South Africa, a study published Thursday reports. The creature, which lived some 200 million years ago, was about twice the size of ...

Nelson Mandela University provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Over the past 15 years, through our scientific study of tracks and traces, we have identified more than ...

An ostrich-like dinosaur species that roamed what is now Mississippi could have weighed several thousand kilograms 1, making it one of the largest dinosaurs of its kind. With their small heads, ...

Scanning Botswana’s remote Linyanti swamp from the low flying chopper, elephant ecologist Mike Chase can’t hide the anxiety and dread as he sees what he has seen too many times before. “I don’t think ...

It’s not just large size and something pointy near their faces. By Becky Ferreira In a lush, bygone landscape, a hungry Triceratops munches on low-lying ferns and cone-bearing cycad plants to power ...

YOU wouldn’t have recognised Eritherium as an elephant when it was roaming Morocco 60 million years ago. It weighed only 5 kilograms, and its canines were nothing like tusks. But detailed study of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world's largest bird — a newly identified species of elephant bird — weighed as much as a ...

There’s more than one way to supersize a dinosaur. Scientists studying the ancient bones of sauropod relatives that walked the Earth more than 200 million years ago have found that they grew to ...