When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors adapted quickly, and over the years, their descendants grew into animals that ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, which lies north of Australia. One is the pygmy long-fingered ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Millions of years ago, some prehistoric otters grew far larger than any species alive today. Fossils of the giant otter Siamogale show a powerful predator with jaws capable of crushing hard shells and ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been rediscovered as living animals.

Colgate University’s Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) hosted Associate Professor of Anthropology Elana Shever for her presentation “What Are the Dinosaurs Doing There? Dinosaur Paleontology from Disney ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...