Fossils & Paleontology

Travis Nolan attends Southern Methodist University and ranked 5th in the world last year after taking gold in the IOIO, the International Origami Internet Olympiad. He’s a 20-year-old paleontology student who’s been into dinosaurs since the time he could talk.

Limestone mesas dominate the foreground, the pale strata angling skyward above what, even by West Texas standards, is a rough dirt road. Above the mesas,…

The rare bones of two ancient human relatives are leaving their home in South Africa for the first time for public display, and they're headed to the…

Experts say fossil remains discovered in the 1980s at a park in southwest Texas have been identified as a new genus and species of duckbilled…

Until now, the only Denisovan remains came from a cave in Siberia. The new find is "much more complete," one expert says.

This is a story about 10-million-year-old bones. But it starts in the 1930s.

A doctor in Wichita Falls with a passion for paleontology is challenging the federal government after authorities seized a 70 million-year-old dinosaur…

North Texas seems to be a prime place for dinosaur discovery, with numerous fossils spotted through the years by professional paleontologists and avid…

CT scans aren’t just for people -- they can also be used on dinosaurs.A skull from the Pawpawsaurus was discovered in North Texas in the early '90s. It…

A Dallas Zookeeper went on a fossil hunt with his little boy at a construction site in Mansfield. And the 4-year-old picked up what turned out to be a…

Some newly-found footprints of the duck-billed hadrosaur just might change our understanding of the species.A herd of duck-billed hadrosaurs left behind a…

Paleontologists at Dallas’ Perot Musuem have discovered another new dinosaur species.They found this pint-sized cousin to the Tyrannosaurus rex at the…