BEIJING - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ...

President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a ...

In a river of northeastern Brazil, an “armored” creature with “large” eyes paused to rest against a rock. The maze-like ...

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...

After a historically warm winter last year canceled several events, Michigan’s sturgeon season came back in full swing ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...