A 168 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco is reshaping our understanding of cerapodan evolution.

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

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, in Morocco, has unearthed the oldest ...

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

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

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

In the scientific field, the task of knowing the past is fundamental. With the premise of investigating the evolution of species, one of the most important tasks in this sector is ...

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that lived 125 million years ago, offering new insights into ancient ecosystems.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas ... at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. During the Triassic Period, when ...

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...