Paleontologists recently announced the discovery of a new species that may help explain the history of life on Earth.

Euhelopodids were among the first sauropods to evolve, appearing in the Jurassic period over 170 million years ago. Omeisaurids were long neck dinosaurs that lived in what is now China during the ...

If you were to travel more than 120 million years back in time to the Early Cretaceous or Jurassic Period, you might see dinosaurs with striped tails and ruddy crests, primitive birds with ...

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers, early mammals were a dull lot. A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ...

It’s a story of how the geology of the Cretaceous Period, between 70 and 100 Million years ago, emphatically changed the course of American history. Where the South as we know it began About 80 ...

Cerapodan dinosaurs thrived during the Cretaceous Period, but their earlier history ... paleontologists' ability to study the origins and early evolution of these dinosaurs. The new fossilized ...

Iguanodons were herbivorous giants from the Early Cretaceous period, measuring up to 36 feet in length and equipped with large thumb spikes, possibly used for defense against predators.

At 10 cm long, this scorpion was much bigger than most of its kind during the Early Cretaceous period, making it a significant predator. This prehistoric scorpion likely hunted insects ...

we can now learn about an important discovery of a mysterious 125-million-year-old scorpion fossil A species known as Jeholia longchengi that was present on the planet in the early Cretaceous ...

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous ... most early birds were small ...