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

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

Old Fossil Teeth of Early Mammals Shocks Archaeologists, 'A Jaw-Dropping Moment' Human ancestors had an adventurous ...

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

For decades, the Yixian Formation was known as the "Pompeii" of the dinosaur world. Anan early Cretaceous formation in northeast China, it holds some of the best preserved fossils on Earth and is ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

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

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

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

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.

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