Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies. Microscopic scales, just ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world ...

This article explores ten extinct plant species, from the ancient Araucarioxylon arizonicum to the more recent Sophora ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...

First evidence of communal burrowing in Procolophon trigonicepsFossils show adults and juveniles lived and died together in ...

The University of Birmingham and University of Bristol researchers found that these ancient reptiles were ancestors of ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely ...

New research suggests that some of the earliest ancestors of dinosaurs and crocodiles managed to migrate across vast, deadly ...