Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

In a study published in January, researchers confirmed the preservation of original organic molecules in Mesozoic dinosaur ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

For those fascinated by ancient Earth, there is an amazing exhibit located right here in Albuquerque. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is gearing up to open its Bradbury Stamm ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

How Matching Dinosaur Footprints Ended Up on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean Meet the Hell Chickens, A Newly Discovered ...

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

New fossils provide clues How did wolves evolve into dogs? New fossils provide clues We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from We just learned where the asteroid that ended din ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.