In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

What animal has the longest gestation period? From salamanders to elephants, here's how long it can take to make a baby.

A trace fossil of 66 dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in Australia, providing a rare snapshot of dinosaur behavior and ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

Fossils of Sinosauropteryx even had preserved pigment structures ... These effects wiped out 75% of animals on Earth in a short period of time. While a lot of volcanoes were also erupting around the ...

Paleontologists at the quarry say the fossils there, some of them possibly from new species, date back about 200 million years to the early Jurassic period, which followed a mass extinction event ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with ... birds lived alongside dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period. The finding helps scientists answer longstanding ...