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

Zavier, 14, Tauranga, New Zealand. Great question Zavier, and one that palaeontologists (scientists who study fossil animals ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...

Palaeontologists are captivated by the size of record-breaking dinosaurs worldwide. Through measuring bone proportions and ...

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

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

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

A 70-million-year-old nest containing 15 juvenile Protoceratops was discovered in Mongolia's Djadochta Formation. This find, ...