Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...

Around this time, the Indian Plate ... Sparse vegetation characterized the early Paleocene, the period immediately following the K-Pg extinctions. As Deccan volcanic activity subsided later ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

10 horrifying snakes from prehistory that ruled land and sea Eophis The oldest known snake fossil is Eophis, or "dawn snake," from about 167 million years ago in the Middle Jurassic period.

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Numbers of the third and fourth columns, referring to the total time elapsed since the beginning of the corresponding period ... Miocene Oligocene Eocene Paleocene Cretaceous.... Commanchian.

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Chronology efforts led by researchers at Natural History Museum, London, and Historic England have produced 30 new dates for ...

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

Feb. 7, 2025 — 'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new ... Multinational Research ...