Roughly 100 million years ago, a creature known as the Nodosaurus roamed the forests of North America. Though it was the size ...

For the biggest animals, bulk is a great defense. Other creatures need tricks, like the snowy coat of an arctic hare or a hagfish’s choking slime clouds. But elephants and rhinoceroses get by with ...

In a remote mine in Canada, a chance strike from an excavator revealed something few paleontologists ever get to see: a nearly life-like dinosaur fossil, preserved in exquisite detail. The 110-million ...