The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...

The Nublar Six return in Chaos Theory Season 3, with dino-adventure and sinister plots involving some old foes.

Palaeontologists in Victoria have identified a trio of ancient meat-eating dinosaurs that terrorised Southern Gondwana, including the world's oldest known megaraptorid - aka the 'mega raptor'. It's ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...

ALTHOUGH Wells 1 and Scrutton 2 suggested methods of studying fossils to determine probable changes in day length, few studies have followed these suggestions. We have examined fossil bivalve ...

Explore the age of the dinosaurs. Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Non ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...