A team of researchers spotted two teeth fossils of creatures living alongside dinosaurs who later turned out to be of human ancestors.

About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by ...

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Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers, early mammals were a dull lot. A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ...

Restoration images of Huadanosaurus sinensis (left) and Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis (right). Illustration: Courtesy of the ...

The challenge was for us to differentiate between the two types of deformation. The Early Cretaceous rocks that we examined had been studied and reported on decades ago, and the deformation ...