A unique parasitic wasp from 99 million years ago, preserved in Cretaceous period amber, featured a Venus flytrap-like ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

Křída is another one of those humble Czech words with a Roman origin. It goes all the way to Latin crēta, which likewise ...

A Danish fossil hunter discovered a 66-million-year-old chunk of fossilised vomit, likely from a fish that couldn't digest sea lilies.

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...

An extremely rare fossil of an ancient venomous scorpion was unearthed at China's Jehol Biota and was a key species in the Cretaceous ecosystem.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...