Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

In Big Bend National Park in Texas, geology students uncovered a rare fossil belonging to one of North America's largest ...

"The fastest dinosaur was likely an Ornithomimosauria," Susannah Maidment, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in ...

Watch: A new dinosaur that lived around 95 million years ago is discovered by scientists in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

Deinocheirus is an animal whose natural history story is perhaps stranger than fiction itself. Steeped in mystery and wonder, ...