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

Home to the Dinosaur Fossil Park and Museum, Rayoli, a quaint village in Gujarat's Mahisagar, holds a crucial key to ...

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 ...

The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, date back to the early Cretaceous period ... South Africa has a well-documented fossil record from the Mesozoic Era, most ...

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

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

These tracks are around 140 million years old, from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African and South American ... about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs", the Mesozoic ...