Paleontologists
Pterosaurs were highly successful reptiles that lived between 210 and 65 million years ago. They were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, but...
Scientists have digitally rebuilt the brain of a dinosaur, revealing "surprising" insights into its diet and behavior.
Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals—including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds—follow a cycle of about 27 million years, coinciding with previously reported mass extinctions of ocean life, according to a new analysis published in the journal ...
A new genus and species of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur that swam in the Late Jurassic seas has been identified from an exceptionally well-preserved specimen...
So we may never actually extract the blood of a mosquito that bit a dinosaur 100 million years ago and use it to resurrect dinosaurs that take over an entire theme park, but we haven’t even been able to get a complete DNA profile from an insect ...
A new genus and species of probainognathian cynodont that roamed our planet during the Triassic period has been identified from two fossilized...
Scientists are racing to find the truth behind the fossils of the famous 'duelling dinosaurs'.
A team of paleontologists from Australia and the United Kingdom has found that ancient deep-sea creatures called radiodonts developed sophisticated eyes over 500 million years ago (...
When Victorian paleontologist Mary Anning walked along the limestone cliffs of southwest England 200 years ago, she...