Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than ...

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

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

The team suggests that after the dinosaurs went extinct ... More information: Ruoshuang Li et al, Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration, Science (2025).

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs", the Mesozoic Era, which stretched from approximately 252 million years ago to 65 million years ago.

It may seem like the plot of a famous science fiction movie, but many are wondering if scientists are plotting to bring back ...

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 ...