Prof Yadong Sun, at the China University of Geosciences, suggested that extreme El Niños may be involved, based on oxygen ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Rex might have been 70% heavier than what the fossil evidence ... Aug. 26, 2024 — An international team of paleontologists has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has criticised the previous Conservative government as “climate dinosaurs” as he gave his first major speech since being appointed to the position.

A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized remains has uncovered fascinating new details regarding its behavior. Living around 120 million years ago, the species, Longipteryx chaoyangensis, is ...

Meet Horridus — one of the most complete Triceratops fossils ever discovered. Found in Montana, Horridus at Melbourne Museum in Australia in the new exhibit "Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs." The ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

There are stories and myths about dragons from everywhere--from Europe to China to Australia to the Americas. Couldn't there be some reality behind the myth?

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

In the stomach of the weird prehistoric bird 'Longipteryx', the scientists found fruits and not flesh which hinted at the ...