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 ...

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs," the Mesozoic Era, which stretched ...

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

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 ...

Rare fossils reveal stunning scene from dinosaur's last days Rare fossils reveal stunning scene from dinosaur's last days Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber Baby Bird from ...

Discoveries there are casting light on life during the Mesozoic, specifically 130 million to 110 million years ago—a time distinguished by the diversification of dinosaurs, mammals, birds ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

A pilot to digitise all British Mesozoic vertebrate specimens held at the Museum. We are digitising our country’s amazing collection of dinosaurs, flying reptiles, prehistoric fish, sharks and ...

The discovery marks the first Mesozoic scorpion fossil unearthed in the country. Besides its scientific name Jeholia longchengi gen. et sp. nov., the unearthed scorpion fossil has a simpler name ...