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 ...

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

Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than 370 vertebrate tracksites on South Africa’s southern coast. These sites are ...

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 ...

As an ancient angiosperm that’s believed to have emerged in the Cretaceous period some 95 million years ago, this exquisite ...

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 ...

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