About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

In the vast and mysterious depths of prehistoric oceans, colossal creatures once ruled the waters. These marine giants, such ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

A fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in North China's Inner Mongolia ...

Biologists of many different subdisciplines categorize life in a field called systematics ... and nuts that some birds developed during the Cretaceous allowed them to survive while bird-like ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...