The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs", the Mesozoic Era, which stretched ... from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, jointly known as the Mesozoic era. Dinosaur finds are more common in southern England where more of the exposed rock is geologically newer. Analysis of the bone ...

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

But researchers have long proposed that today’s diversity of herbivorous insect feeding styles developed when flowering plants, or angiosperms, evolved during the early Cretaceous period between ...