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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A newly discovered scorpion fossil, Jeholia longchengi, reveals insights into China’s Early Cretaceous ecosystem.

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

As animal life began to recover ... The archosaurs were a component of the diapsid lineage, which includes many successful Mesozoic groups such as the dinosaurs and birds, pterosaurs, crocodilians and ...

TASS/. A group of scientists plans an expedition to the polar site of the dinosaur fauna in Yakutia's Suntarsky District to discover new remains of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic animals ...

At Liaoning the fine particles of ash and mud that covered animals preserved soft body parts and prevented decomposition by sealing off oxygen. Some scientists call Liaoning a Mesozoic Pompeii ...