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

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as forests vanish, sightings are on the rise—offering a glimpse into how folklore is ...

A team of geologists, paleontologists, and climate scientists with members from institutions in Mexico, the U.S., and Spain ...

A new genus and species of Ornithomimidae, Mexidracon longimanus, has been identified from the ornithomimosaur material.

Jan. 15, 2025 — A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife's community. This is ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

The researchers also found evidence that silesaurids, long thought to be cousins of dinosaurs, might actually be ancestors of ...

Scientists have been working on the origins of dinosaurs for decades. Now, it appears they may be a step closer to ...

This discovery could help fill the gaps in the dinosaur family tree and provide new insights into their evolution. Study co-author Professor Philip Mannion noted that early dinosaurs were likely ...

It might be that palaeontologists haven’t been looking in the right place. By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...

A group of fossils belonging to an unknown dinosaur in the Herrerasauridae family were described last ... the known fossils and evolutionary trees of dinosaurs and their close reptile relatives ...