Paleontologists
According to a study published in the journal Science, the earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves; instead, they form a lineage that likely...
An international team of researchers from Australia, Japan, the United States and Belgium has successfully extracted bright pink biological pigments from 1.1-billion-year-old marine sedimentary rocks of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa....
These so-called lessemsaurids lived roughly 237 million to 201 million years ago in present-day Argentina, roughly 47 million years before...
They are the biggest animals to have walked the Earth, with some weighing as much as a Space Shuttle.
How much do you really know about this horned, frilled behemoth, other than that its plastic model looks cool posed next to your scale-model...
What would happen if we found ourselves sharing a planet with T. rex, velociraptors, and other creatures that had been extinct for tens of millions of years?
This bird skull Ichthyornis adds new dates for when key features of modern birds appeared....
A new book journeys through cetaceans’ past, present and future.
Tens of millions of years ago, after most land-roaming dinosaurs died out in the Cretaceous Period, a hodgepodge of ancient animals started to fill the...
Brazilian paleontologists have elucidated the evolutionary history of today's Yellow-spotted Amazon River turtle and of the oldest turtle in Brazil which inhabited the country 125 million years ago.