Workers at Dinosaur National Monument uncovered a long-necked dinosaur fossil during asphalt removal.

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

For a place named Dinosaur, it’s been a while since the small Colorado town revealed any actual fossils. But after a 101 year ...

Claims about dinosaur blood and soft tissue are often misunderstood. No usable blood or intact DNA has ever been recovered from dinosaur fossils. This video explains what scientists actually found and ...

A fresh analysis of a fossil found almost 50 years ago reveals a newly described genus named for its "manipulating claw" ...

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.

Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to ...

We’ve been lucky to uncover countless dinosaur footprints over centuries of exploration, some of which represent the largest dinosaur trackways known to science. Remarkable to think, then, that they ...

This accession consists of the "Digging the Fossil Record: Paleobiology at the Smithsonian" blog, maintained by the Department of Paleobiology, as it existed on August 15, 2017. The blog chronicles ...