Ancient charcoal fossils reveal that massive wildfires swept across Earth’s forests 237 million years ago, reshaping our ...

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

I once captured a small creature that I spotted rustling across a sandy patch of soil. I showed it to a 3-year-old friend, ...

A bizarre crocodile relative from the age of dinosaurs is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient reptiles.

Paleontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) have published a new study in the scientific journal Royal ...

A new species of dinosaur, nicknamed a “murder muppet,” was discovered by an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech. His ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

This Arizona park offers a rare chance to see fossils, ancient landscapes, and millions of years of natural history all in ...

Japanese paleontologists have established that the first finned octopuses, which lived in the Cretaceous period from 100 to ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

Coincident with the rise of the dinosaurs, a large landmass filled most of the Arctic circle, potentially contributing to ...