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 ...

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

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

It revealed marked seasonal temperature differences and periodic glacial melt events during the Early Cretaceous period (approximately ... organisms act as natural time recorders, preserving ...

The find came in the fossil-rich outcrops of northeast Mississippi, near Starkville in the Prairie Bluff Formation, according ...