University of Florida paleontologists had the unique opportunity to send a couple of their small fossils to space at no extra ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

Then, a paleontology master’s student named ... the 1996 samples and the original 1931 now-destroyed fossils, including a small horn in between the dinosaur’s nostrils. The genus name ...

"This fossil underscores that Antarctica has much to tell us about the earliest stages of modern bird evolution," said paper co-author and Ohio University paleontologist Professor Patrick O'Connor ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

age or burial environment of the fossils in question, according to new research from North Carolina State University. The work, published in Scientific ... A small team of archaeologists ...

This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...