We tend to think of tree resin as an ancient, fragrant defense against munching insects – one that fends off pests and scabs ...

A fossilized Edmontosaurus skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists rare evidence of ...

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from these plants challenge this idea.

Travel back in time to when giant dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Though they get the mega-share of the prehistoric spotlight, the huge reptiles weren’t the only ones out ...

To paleontologists like me, however, a fossil like “Gus” – excavated from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota over three ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

What would happen if dinosaurs were suddenly reintroduced into the modern animal kingdom? This video examines how famous ...

A record-breaking T. rex goes up for auction as a long-lost Antarctic fossil resurfaces. What dinosaur bones tell us about a ...

Horseshoe crabs show up in the fossil record over 445 million years ago. Their blood is valuable in testing vaccines.

According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet, a bony crest on the front of its snout ...