Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

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 ...

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

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

The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.

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

From its well-preserved bones, the paleontologists believe that Chadititan was a small and slender dinosaur, with elongated vertebrae and delicate limbs that set it apart from other titanosaurs. It ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

The Carcharodontosaurus was another species of therapod that lived in the Cretaceous period. Overseas fossils have showed it could grow up to thirteen metres in length about the same size as a T-Rex.

QUESTION: Are ancient lacewings, which lived during the Cretaceous period, related to the butterfly? No. Ancient lacewings found in fossils from northern China are known as kalligrammatid ...

A new fossil discovery may rewrite Australia’s Cretaceous Period evolutionary history. Paleontologists led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and Monash University uncovered what they believe is ...