The dinosaurs existed on our planet for roughly one hundred and sixty five million years, and for the majority of that time, ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

An international team of paleontologists discovered a previously unknown species of ancient mammal, named Ravjaa ishii, in ...

Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south ...

The piece illustrates the disparity of the Northern and Southern hemisphere’s evolution of terrestrial Cretaceous faunas ...

Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska ...

Researchers have discovered the fossil of the oldest-known ant, Vulcanidris cratensis, preserved in limestone in Brazil. This ...

The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, plesiosaurians, and thalattosuchians, dominating food webs during the Jurassic and ...

In the middle of Mongolia’s vast Gobi Desert, a team of scientists has made an exciting discovery: the fossil of a ...

In the Cretaceous period, the dinosaurs dominated the land ... and started the evolutionary process that led to life on Earth as we know it today. The truth is that some dinosaurs may have ...