In 1923, scientists from the American Museum of Natural History unearthed the first fossils to be widely regarded as dinosaur eggs. Found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, the eggs were initially thought to belong to Protoceratops, whose remains were frequently found in the area.

Not counting birds, dinosaur fossils have been found on all seven continents and many countries. Dinosaur species have been named from 51 countries and Antarctica. Thirty or more species have been named from 12 countries: Argentina, Brazil, ...

April 3, 2025 - The first near-complete dinosaur skeleton, this Hadrosaur was a major milestone in the field of paleontology! ... Discovered by the self-named “Dino Cowboy” in June of 2019, this fossil depicts a Triceratops in battle with either a young T. Rex or a Nanotyrannus. Above: Found by miners in Canada!

Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent of Earth, including Antarctica but most of the dinosaur fossils and the greatest variety of species have been found high in the deserts and badlands of North America, China and Argentina.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired a remarkably complete skull of Pachycephalosaurus, a dinosaur famed for its domed head that lived alongside species like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops at the end of the ...

The fossil is a partial left thigh ... Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds. It was found along the shores of Sucia Island State Park in the San Juan Islands....

Fossils are found almost exclusively in sedimentary rocks—rocks that form when sand, silt, mud, and organic material settle out of water or air to form layers that are then compacted into rock.

October 30, 2025 - Skeletons of duck-billed dinosaurs found more than 100 years ago are so well-preserved that they contain fleshy body parts of the extinct species embedded in thin layers of clay, scientists say. Specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens, known for their long skull that resembles a duck's bill, were found in eastern Wyoming in the early 1900s. Recent reexamination of those fossils by paleontologists at the University of Chicago revealed that the fossils do not contain just bones, but mummified body parts protected underneath a clay mask, according to a paper published last week in Science.

Think mostly sand, silt, mud, and pebbles, with some cases of chemical deposition of lime, or marine “rain” of tiny plankton pieces. Most dinosaur fossils are found in rocks deposited by ancient rivers, because the rivers moved enough sediment ...

February 20, 2024 - Sometime between C.E. 1100 and 1700, a Massospondylus dinosaur bone was found and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho, marking the earliest known human discovery of a dinosaur fossil

2 days ago - The Pulaosaurus fossil was unearthed in Qinglong County, a region already rich with fossils from the Jurassic period. Researchers believe this area was once a humid, volcanic landscape, perfect for preserving such remarkable details.

2 weeks ago - Paleontologists have found tens of thousands of dinosaur tracks in South America, which offers evidence as to which species were traveling via an ancient coastline.

March 5, 2024 - Damien Boschetto discovered a 70-million-year-old fossilized titanosaur in southern France in 2022. ... Titanosaurs, members of the sauropod dinosaur family, roamed the Earth from the Late Jurassic Epoch -- 163.5 million to 145 million years ...

August 24, 2025 - The evidence of feathers around the skeleton led scientists to realise the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs. Since 1861, 12 Archaeopteryx specimens have been dug up. ... Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex is a record-breaker in more ways than one. At more than 40 feet long and 13 feet tall, it's one of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found.

July 22, 2025 - The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a drilling project that aimed to better understand the geology of the Denver Basin.

December 5, 2023 - Discover the Green and Yampa rivers which provide a laboratory for scientific study and wilderness journey. ... Visitors can see over 1,500 dinosaur fossils exposed on the cliff face inside the Quarry Exhibit Hall.

December 21, 2023 - Dinosaurs Gigantic dinosaur with ... out of a cliff in Mongolia's Gobi Desert · Dinosaurs 115 million-year-old dinosaur tracks unearthed in Texas after devastating floods · Dinosaurs Rare fossils in New Mexico reveal dinosaurs ...

July 17, 2025 - Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hidden under their noses — in the museum’s parking lot.

October 30, 2025 - The 67 million-year-old fossils, found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, are the skeleton of small-bodied dinosaur called Nanotyrannus lancensis from the late Cretaceous period, according to a paper published Thursday in Nature.