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

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

Measuring around 10 centimeters in length, J. longchengi was a giant for its time as compared to other scorpion fossils from the Mesozoic era. With slender pedipalps, long legs, and an elongated ...

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

The largest extinction events define a change in era. The end of the Paleozoic and beginning of the Mesozoic 251 million ... with the investigations in the Fossil Kit. Each group working on an ...

Right now at the Durham Museum, there's a new exhibit called Beyond the Ice: Unearthing Antarctic Dinosaurs. Dr. Nathan Smith ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million years ... Cycads and Bennettitales were at their most diverse during the Mesozoic Era. This fossil trunk of a Bennettitales shrub is more than 50 centimetres ...

the Triceratops Skull and Ammonite of the Mesozoic Era are shown against the green background, etc.). The numbered locations on the map represent museums and sites in Colorado that feature fossils.

Their disappearance from their prior habitats began during the late Mesozoic and continued into the early Cenozoic Era, punctuated by the cataclysmic ... He combines geochemistry with the fossil ...