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 ...

During the Permian period, when most of Earth’s landmass was still bound up in the supercontinent Pangea, this part of what is now Brazil was covered in vascular plants like horsetails and ferns ...

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

“If there is a species that we might be able to engage with in some kind of two-way communication, these guys are really good candidates.” Bottlenose dolphins living near Sarasota, Florida ...

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

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

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

Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.

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 ...

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

Discover the migration routes of ancient reptiles and how they thrived in a nearly lifeless environment after the mass ...

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