When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

new study reveals that large predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, ...

Scientists in Patagonia unearthed the nearly complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, one of the world's tiniest ...

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first ...

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

The caution kept the mammoth extinction story intact, but it turned the bones into a new kind of mystery. A run of ...

A study examining fossil evidence shows that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago. University of Toronto Mississauga researchers Jordan M.

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded like.

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

Turns out the key to discovering a new type of dinosaur might be a weird toe in an Idaho museum. Or a skull in Switzerland. Idaho State University paleontologists are examining whether these and other ...

A new study has revealed that a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil featured both smooth and scaly skin. The specimen, which had been sitting in museum storage for decades, has helped scientists ...