The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than ...

Cindy Jenson-Elliott releases her 18th children’s nonfiction book, ‘The Doomsday Detectives,’ about the dinosaurs’ extinction, and will appear at Warwick’s on March 20 ...

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

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

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 ...

Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first discovered the fossil in 2009, told Live Science, ...

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 ...