When Hank Woolley cracked open a jar labeled simply “lizard,” he didn’t expect to meet a monster. Inside, stored for years in ...

He also wrote about his expeditions in the Gobi for the museum, and in a series of best-selling books. The key location for dinosaur fossils in ... rises up out of the desert.

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because the sheath of one of the digits is intact. Made of keratin (the same material as fingernails), the ...

The fossil was dug out of a Cretaceous sedimentary deposit in the Gobi Desert by a team of researchers from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 2012. Uranium-lead dating of the mineral layers ...

Fossils of this dinosaur were recently unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert while a water pipeline was being constructed. Scientists say the Duonychus was a member of a group of "some of the ...

(CNN) — With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like a bizarre mix of sloth, giraffe and cult movie hero Edward ...