A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

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

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

They lived during the dinosaur era, entering the fossil record about 165 million years ago in the Jurassic period and disappearing 45 million years later in the mid-Cretaceous. Butterflies (Order ...

A 70-million-year-old titanosaur skeleton was discovered in France by amateur paleontologist Damien Boschetto. The nearly ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species ... a plesiosaur of the Cretaceous era in an artist rendering.

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils ...

Scotland's earliest and most complete dinosaur fossil has been formally identified and described, marking a milestone in ...

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...