A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.

When most people think of dinosaurs, they picture ferocious giants — the towering Tyrannosaurus rex or the armored ...

Maybe that black cat that crossed your path wasn’t so bad after all. For the dinosaurs, an extinction-causing asteroid derailed what seemed to be a pretty good run. “It’s all just bad luck,” said New ...

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A fresh analysis of a site in New Mexico provides a glimpse into the final days of the dinosaurs, showing their diversity before going extinct.

A mosquito larva fossil thought to be the world's oldest has been found by scientists, who think it could be around 99 ...

The fossil was uncovered in Myanmar’s Kachin region and has been identified as a new species named Cretosabethes primaevus.

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...