Herbivorous dinosaurs, rather than just post-extinction mammals, were likely the universe's first major fruit-eaters and seed ...

For more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that ...

A collection of fossilized dinosaur bones from Wyoming features tooth marks that provide evidence that some bites were likely ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Germany and the UK, have described a new species of ancient marine crocodile, Enalioetes schroederi. Enalioetes lived in the shallow ...

An octopus species that lived about 80 million years ago had a body length of up to 19 meters and was likely the top predator ...

The site of Jehol Biota in China is famous for stunning fossils which preserve soft tissue—skin, organs, feathers, and fur. These fossils offer rare insights into the evolution of characteristics like ...

Nearly 66 million years ago, a large asteroid hit Earth and contributed to the global extinction of dinosaurs, allowing the rise of mammals and leaving birds as their only living descendants.

Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction. 164 ...

A new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth's history may have driven lampreys apart -- genetically speaking. The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ...

Artwork of a pair of tyrannosaur dinosaurs surveying a volcanic landscape. This depicts a scene at the end of the Cretaceous period in Earths history. A massive meteorite has impacted the Earth, ...

An 18-foot-long sea monster ruled the ancient ocean that once covered Kansas A newly described species of mosasaur, an extinct marine reptile, swam through Cretaceous seas 80 million years ago and had ...