Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...

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

Dinosaurs were the most numerous animals during the Cretaceous period. Among them ... killing 75% of ocean creatures Permian-Triassic extinction 253 million years ago: Volcanism killed 96% ...

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 ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

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 ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it ...