Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

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

New research suggests that Earth’s orbital variations—the slow changes in its tilt, axial precession, and shape of its ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

The fossils are described in a study published February 19 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and reveal what the predator hierarchy unique to Cretaceous Australia might have looked like.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...