The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our ...

One branch of theropods were giants in South America while another filled smaller niches, but in Australia they reversed ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

Chhattisgarh's Gondwana Marine Fossil Park in the MCB district, established in March 2022, showcases fossils from over 280 ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Last year, TIME’s inaugural Closers list focused on leaders working to chip away at the Black-white wealth gap. This year TIME has expanded its focus to highlight 25 Black leaders who are ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán ... an early relative of ducks and geese that lived in Antarctica at around the same time ...

With the current cold weather looking depressingly endless, there's no better time to stay in ... The Crown has made fans out of period-drama detractors and the most steadfast anti-royalists.

Thanks to the column, we now know that at the start of the Paleozoic period the region where Virginia stands today was covered by a shallow sea. The latter was home to nautiloids, corals, bryozoans, ...

The interesting thing is that the language of the tablets, being a special, archaic linguistic idiom, testifies to the existence during the Mycenaean period of an element characteristic of languages, ...