When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly ...

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - While there is little doubt that many a Mesozoic mammal became a meal for a dinosaur, it may come as a surprise to learn that some mammals also dined on dinos. A ...

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Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery of a remarkable "one-of-a-kind" fossil. The prehistoric species, named Navaornis hestiae, lived ...

The discovery of a creature described as resembling a "buck-toothed toucan" that lived some 68 million years ago has upended assumptions about diversity in the birds that lived alongside dinosaurs. At ...

New view of early bird diversification, showing the emergence of pygostyle and U-shaped furcula in the Late Jurassic and the occurrence of crown-group birds (Aves) in the Cretaceous. The timing of the ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation.

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed 10 new species of fossilized spiders from the Mesozoic era, including one whose eyes still reflect light, 110 million years after its death. This ...

After 66 million years, a few more months doesn’t seem like too long a wait. That’s all the time that remains before the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park is scheduled to open this summer. The ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

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